On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:29:54PM +0530, Raghu Kodali wrote: > Every time my laptop wakes up from hibernate, I observe that my used > swap has increased by approximately 2MB. I am seeing the usage of swap > using the "top" command. > > Just to test it out, I did hibernate->wakeup->hibernate->wakeup without > running any other application in between. I did not even change the > workspace. > > My computer is a Thinkpad R51 with 512+256 MB ram & a 2GB swap. > > Eventhough an increase of 2MB in used swap is not a big amount, I am > just curious to know if this is expected or any of my settings are > incorrect. > > My Etch is just a out of the box install with the kernel as > > Linux DebianEtch 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP > > Please let me know if I need to tweak something or this behaviour is > expected.
Using top, what other changes do you notice? E.g. does 'buffers' change? Are there any processes using more swap? I wonder if hibernating and unhibernating uses swap which the kernel later leaves 'used' but somehow 'spare' for the next process that needs swap? Does it eventually free up? I so rarely swap. However, I occasionally see 4k used. Then again, I don't hibernate. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
