Can someone tell me if this is normal behavior? Note how the amount of physical memory in use doesn't change even though 52 megs of data from swap must be swapped in. Is the swapped data tossed? If its useless, why hadn't it been cleared out beforehand? Any information would be helpful. Please cc: repies to me. Thanks.
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127408 83172 44236 0 2416 37612
-/+ buffers/cache: 43144 84264
Swap: 262136 52688 209448
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/swap file 262136 52688 5
# swapoff /swap
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127408 83432 43976 0 2424 37692
-/+ buffers/cache: 43316 84092
Swap: 0 0 0
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
# uname -a
Linux hork 2.4.7 #6 Mon Jul 23 02:16:11 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
# swapon --version
swapon: mount-2.11h
# free -V
procps version 2.0.7
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