Shlomi Shalem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all, > I have a strange problem, hope you guys are able to help:) > Anyway, a few months ago I installed Slack 10.1 and everything goes > well until now, except one thing: my swap partition is not working! I > mean, my physical memory is always standing on somrthing like 96% used > but my swap is totally empty. This happens also when my computer is no > running any heavy processes, and when it does, no matter what, my swap > remains empty and useless... > What could it be?
You misunderstand how Linux reports memory usage. It will *always* be around ninety-something per cent because memory is not released until some other process needs it. Run free(1) and check the line that says "+/- buffers/cache" - that will report more realistic used/free numbers. If, for some reason, slack does not have free(1), cat /proc/meminfo and add up the MemFree, Buffers, and Cached lines - that's the memory you have available. You are really not using your swap. Be happy. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
