On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:32:16AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:15:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> >
> > > top - 20:35:11 up 58 min, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.18, 0.11
> > > Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
> > > Cpu(s): 5.9% us, 1.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 92.1% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi,
> > > 0.Mem: 256728k total, 247288k used, 9440k free, 3864k buffer
> > > Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 70400k cached
> > >
> > >
> > > Why?
> > > What can I do to get my swap partition being used as swap?
> > >
> > >
> > If "swapon -s" doesn't show any swap being used, I'd try:
> >
> > mkswap /dev/hda5
> > swapon -a
>
> How much RAM do you have? I don't think Linux uses swap until RAM starts
> to run out. I have a gigabyte (should I say Gigibyte these days?) of
> RAM, and as far as I know, I've *never* used swap.
>
Whether or not it is used, the output of "top" or "free" should show how
much swap is available.
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