Re: when is swap allocated

2000-01-21 Thread aphro
that is perfectly normal, linux is incredibly efficient at using memory. my main server has been up almost 6 months and is used _a lot_. and my mem stats: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:127544 119664 7880 100528 6016

AW: when is swap allocated

2000-01-21 Thread chris Günther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-+ -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 21. Januar 2000 18:56 An: debian Betreff: when is swap allocated I was just wondering when/why swap space is used. I rooted around a bit in the various sourc

Re: when is swap allocated

2000-01-21 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: > I was just wondering when/why swap space is used. I rooted around a bit > in the various sources of documentation, but didn't find what I was > looking for. The reason I ask is that swap is very rarely used on my > system. Most of the time, the resu

when is swap allocated

2000-01-21 Thread Brian J. Stults
I was just wondering when/why swap space is used. I rooted around a bit in the various sources of documentation, but didn't find what I was looking for. The reason I ask is that swap is very rarely used on my system. Most of the time, the results of "free" look like this: total