On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>
> That depends upon the Linux kernel setting of vm.overcommit_memory. I
> have ranted about this on a number of occasions. But the Linux kernel
> default is to overcommit. In which case swap is not used in the
> tr
Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> I'd ask you to keep in mind that even "unused swap" (meaning, you do
> not expect the system to need to swap) is still useful and valuable.
Agreed.
> Sometimes processes ask for more memory than is available in the
> system. The kernel will not allow the process to ru
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, ML mail wrote:
> That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed
> config files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems
> package from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the
> following to my de
ms/no_swap boolean false
and am going to test it right now :)
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Subject: Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrot
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrote:
> I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed
> automatically over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no
> swap space but I have the problem that if I do not specify a swap
> space in my preseed configuration
Whether or not it is used, the output of "top" or "free" should show how
much swap is available.
Hear hear.
Did the incantation work?
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:32:16AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:15:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> >
> > > top - 20:35:11 up 58 min, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.18, 0.11
> > > Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zom
On Tuesday, 04.10.2005 at 08:32 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> How much RAM do you have? I don't think Linux uses swap until RAM
> starts to run out. I have a gigabyte (should I say Gigibyte these
> days?) of RAM, and as far as I know, I've *never* used swap.
Some interesting points about swap he
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:15:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>
> > Can someone help me figure out why I don't seem to be using the swap
> > partition.
> >
> > Here is an output of fdisk -l
> >
> > Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
> > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19485
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Can someone help me figure out why I don't seem to be using the swap
> partition.
>
> Here is an output of fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19485 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
>Device Boo
* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010710 19:15]:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:22:34AM -0700, G.LeeJ wrote:
> | Does debian use a swap file I assume so..if not well forget this but
>
> Not a "file" but a partition. It only uses one if you created one (a
> good idea!) when you installed (or if you a
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:22:34AM -0700, G.LeeJ wrote:
| Does debian use a swap file I assume so..if not well forget this but
Not a "file" but a partition. It only uses one if you created one (a
good idea!) when you installed (or if you added one later on).
| if so somehow mine went south!.
"G.LeeJ" wrote:
>
> huh?..all of a sudden I see I have NO swap file..at least according
> to my gnonme system info menu option..
>
> I know I have a swap partition..or used to or so I thought one was
> created when I installed progeny?...but according to /proc/partitions
> its only 1
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