Hello, all. I was building a web-browsable directory of constructivist and post- constructivist art, and when I was done mucking about, I noticed that gkrellm was reporting that swap was about 40% used. To my dismay, closing the GIMP and Netscape did not free any swap. Can I assume that NS had consumed this swap building it's image cache prior to display? I don't know what else to attribute this to.
The relevant snippet from the o/p of top: 52 processes: 51 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 1.4% user, 0.4% system, 0.0% nice, 98.2% idle Mem: 256372K total, 92544K used, 163828K free, 1228K buffers Swap: 131032K total, 60292K used, 70740K free, 50068K cached I thought the swap issues had finally been licked in this release of the kernel.(?) Back to 2.2.x for this production box, I suppose? :( Is there still a constraint for a minimum swap size relative to physical memory with 2.4.x kernels? Unfortunately, I won't be able to enlarge the swap partition on this box until moving to a different HDD sometime. TIA, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
