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nugenth
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Joined: 26 Sep 2004
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 Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:18 pm Post subject: Swap not being used? |
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My meminfo looks like this:
| Code: | total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 527032320 505753600 21278720 0 85090304 348299264
Swap: 1011699712 0 1011699712
MemTotal: 514680 kB
MemFree: 20780 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 83096 kB
Cached: 340136 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 175432 kB
Inactive: 273776 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 514680 kB
LowFree: 20780 kB
SwapTotal: 987988 kB
SwapFree: 987988 kB
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I've got 512 MB of memory and I made 1 GB of swap space. But from the above, it looks like I'm not using my swap?
At the moment, the box is running an emerge on mod_perl and I have 3 ssh sessions going.
Any ideas? |
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inode77
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Location: Heart of Europe
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| There's plenty of free physical memory available @ moment of snapshot so why using swap when there's enough ram ? |
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Sachankara
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Linux doesn't handle memory and virtual memory as Windows do. It doesn't move huge amounts of data from the RAM to the disk unless it has to (unlike Windows)... :p
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