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SubjectRe: My System doesn't use swap!
On Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 13:44:04 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>Michael Buesch wrote:
>
>>Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>:
>>
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>I have mysterious Problem:
>>>90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used
>>>and about about 150 MB are swappable.
>>>
>>>[matthias-christian@iceowl ~]$ free
>>> total used free shared buffers cached
>>>Mem: 383868 362176 21692 0 12 208956
>>>-/+ buffers/cache: 153208 230660
>>>
>>>
>> ^^^^^^
>>You have ~230M of 380M free.
>>Nothing mysterious here.
>>
>>
>Ok maybe I wasn't able to read the /free/ output correctly, but why is
>no swap used (more than 60% ram are used)?

Why would you want to use swap when you still have free RAM? The kernel
isn't using swap because there is no need to.

Benno
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