Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:05:20 -0500 | From | Daniel Gryniewicz <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:12:32 +0000 James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> "when it swaps" is meaningless: Linux ALWAYS swaps when there is swapspace. > Do you mean when it *thrashes*? Or does your system have problems during I/O
> such as not using DMA for disk access?
[17:03 athena] dang> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 255304 184416 70888 716 12636 77524 -/+ buffers/cache: 94256 161048 Swap: 128484 0 128484 [17:03 athena] dang> uname -a Linux athena.fprintf.net 2.4.13-ac7-preempt-sse #1 Mon Nov 5 14:06:53 EST 2001 i686 unknown [17:04 athena] dang>
Linux does not always swap.
Daniel
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