On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:22:13 -0600 Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:40:21PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > mother:~# cat /proc/swaps > > Filename Type Size Used > > Priority/dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 > > -1 > > > > now say i'll start openoffice and mozilla and a couple of others, > > just to consume RAM. the system will not use the swap space. any > > idea why not? > > How long did you wait? Anything in dmesg? When I start my server it > has not swap usage for up to a few hours just because it doesn't > need to and it only has 96MB ram. Then the next day or so it > has more I will ditto that even with only 384 Megs of ram it takes sometimes days for me to show any swap usage, and that is running a lot of java apps that eat up memory and have leaks to boot... when I was running potato I think I went a whole year - across reboots of course - before I ever saw swap being used. There was nothing wrong with my system though. I even inquired and was told that as long as it is showing up in "free" then it was available to the kernel. HTH Shawn > > adamm@polaris:~$ cat /proc/swaps > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 partition 345388 13596 10 > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 partition 144576 13516 10 > /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part3 partition 160640 13584 10 > > I don't think there is anything wrong with linux. > > Try checking the swap for back blocks... Maybe that might explain a > thing or two.... > > > - Adam > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
