Mark Lanett wrote:
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, swap in the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels only gets used when you
> run out of RAM. So if you are upping your RAM and not upping the number of
> tasks you run, there would be no need to increase swap. Less reason if
> anything, but disk space is too cheap to make it worth repartitioning
> downwards.
>
> You really need to know how much of ram and/or swap you generally use. With
> Windows NT/2K, the Task Manager's Performance tab tells you this (Commit
> Charge, Total used currently, Peak used overall, and Limit of ram and swap
> together). How does one determine this with Linux?
it's in /proc, there are several programs you can use:
free, top, xosview, gkrellm... etc. there are some system monitors for
gnome and kde...
basically you want swap as a sort of safety buffer - if there's
something unexpected (that eats up a lot of memory) you don't want
kernel to start to kill programs (which it has to).
erik
