Thanks for the explanation. In fact I do run and X and Netscape.
Hidong
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Hidong Kim wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I often see on my system that it's using a lot of swap, but not all of
> > its ram. Here's a free:
> >
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 387272 236548 150724 32244 8448
> > 59760
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 168340 218932
> > Swap: 819072 63972 755100
> >
> >
> > Why does the system use swap when there's available ram? Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Hidong
> >
> >
> This may happen if the system needs memory and swaps code that isn't
> being used out to disk, and then later, when memory usage drops, if hte
> code still isn't needed, it leaves them swapped out untill they are
> needed. One way this can happen is if you have daemons waiting for a
> connection. The code is not going to be run untill someone connects, so
> why swap it back into memory untill needed. That way, the memory can be
> used for something, rather then sitting unused, or having to swap the
> same code back out to disk if memory usage increases.
>
> Running X and Netscape is a good way to cause code to be swapped!
>
> Mikkel
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