Re: My System doesn't use swap!

From: Mark Watts
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 07:28:35 EST


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> Michael Buesch wrote:
> >Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>Hi!
> >>I have mysterious Problem:
> >>90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used
> >>and about about 150 MB are swappable.
> >>
> >>[matthias-christian@iceowl ~]$ free
> >> total used free shared buffers cached
> >>Mem: 383868 362176 21692 0 12 208956
> >>-/+ buffers/cache: 153208 230660

Note that ~200MB are being used for disk caching.
If your system need to allocate more ram, the disk cache will reduce before
swap is used.

Mark.

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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ Trusted Information Management
Trusted Solutions and Services group
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