On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:12:32 +0000
James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> "when it swaps" is meaningless: Linux ALWAYS swaps when there is swapspace.
> Do you mean when it *thrashes*? Or does your system have problems during I/O
> such as not using DMA for disk access?
[17:03 athena] dang> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255304 184416 70888 716 12636 77524
-/+ buffers/cache: 94256 161048
Swap: 128484 0 128484
[17:03 athena] dang> uname -a
Linux athena.fprintf.net 2.4.13-ac7-preempt-sse #1 Mon Nov 5 14:06:53 EST 2001
i686 unknown
[17:04 athena] dang>
Linux does not always swap.
Daniel
---
Recursion n.:
See Recursion.
-- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Nov 23 2001 - 21:00:35 EST