On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, David G. Schlecht wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I suppose this question isn't Debian specific but I'm hoping some of the
> many experts here can point me in the right direction.
>
> I'm running Linux v2.2.16 from a Debian distro. The "free" command shows
> zero bytes of swap free out of 129 Mb (same size as physical mem).
>
> The culprit was qpopper when I received a 200Mb e-mail.
>
> I once read that the "free" value isn't that important, as long as the
> system isn't thrashing -- which it's not. If I recollect, the reasoning
> was that the swap is just rearranged next time someone has to page to disk.
you should avoid using swap ...
- if you have 64MB of swapp used, you should add a stick of 64MB
- if you have 128MB of swap used, you should add a stick of 128MB
if you use swap.. you'd just run slower ... some apps like while in kde
are noticably slower .. and other apps using swap goes un=noticed
if your os runs out of memory ... you'll know.. it'll reboot ( crash,
segfault, .. ) all by itself
c ya
alvin
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