Messages in this thread | | | From | Benno <> | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:50:35 +1100 | Subject | Re: My System doesn't use swap! |
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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.
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