On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:37:34 +0100, AG wrote: > On 14/08/11 15:27, Camaleón wrote: >> What's your amount of physical ram? >> >> > My hard ram is 3 GB (2.84 to be exact) and I gave the same amount to > swap when I initially partitioned the HDD.
That's a fair amount of ram... I wonder why your system is in the need of making use of swap. >>> Is there any value/ harm in releasing this space using something like: >>> >>> swapoff -a&& swapon -a [1] >> (...) >> >> No harm, but no need to do it neither, unless you have a specific >> requirement. Swap usage is up to the kernel, just let it to manage as >> it desires (remember the kernel's law: "unused memory is wasted >> memory"). > > I wasn't aware of that law. Thanks for the info ;-) > > My response to Ivan crossed yours, so if there's no value and I also run > the risk of meddling with the kernel's affairs, it seems wise to leave > well enough alone, unless I have a specific need to do so and the usage > has accumulated. I would investigate why 3 GiB is not enough, maybe there is a background app that is (ab)using too much ram for any reason :-? It just happened to me something similar a couple of days ago, but on a server that has 8 GiB of RAM (and 1 GiB of swap). I was copying a big file (~37 GiB) over the network from a windows client to the samba server and when it finished, I realized the server was using a small amount of swap (¿?) and kept it so until the next day when the server was started again :-) So, who is going to say that a "/swap" partition is going to be needed with 8 GiB of RAM? I wouldn't, I just thought kernel makes use of all of the available resources are allocates them to get the best performance. Meaning: if you have available resources (i.e., unused swap) they will be used. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.14.15.13...@gmail.com
