On Sun 14 Aug 2011 at 15:37:34 +0100, AG wrote: > 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.
More than enough. > 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. brian@desktop:~$ uptime 19:51:39 up 88 days, 21:29, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.17, 0.22 brian@desktop:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1035828 1000468 35360 0 67996 343620 -/+ buffers/cache: 588852 446976 Swap: 1951888 50132 1901756 I have no idea why 50M of swap is used but the machine chugs along. I'd suggest you forget about it. -- 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/20110814190250.GT14528@desktop