On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:23, marc dobler wrote: > hello RH-List ! > > i'm just new on the list, and also new in linux. > RH8 is installed on my pc (2.0 GHz,512 Mo), dual with W-XP, > and it seems to be running quite slowly ... > windows and KDE need a lot of memory ! > > i checked the memory and discovered that the swap file is NOT used at > all. > although the ram memory is not totally used, > i would like to have some more information about this ... > is it possible (and how ?) to tell the OS to use the swap file? >
Marc you will find youget more replies if you create a new thread rather than try to split a topic. If I understand it correctly, you don't tell the kernel to use the swap file it will use it if it needs to. Most of the questions about this will come from the other approach. Like where has all my memory gone? THe kernel will buffer data in memory if it has extra in case you need to access it again is the answer to that one. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
