Matt Fahrner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Does anyone know why a Linux box that is low on memory would choose to not
> use swap? We have a couple of RedHat linux boxes that seem to choose to run
> out of memory before they'll use swap. They aren't even using the same kernel.
> 
> 
> As an example, one of the boxes is RedHat 7.1 running a stock "2.4.9-21smp"
> kernel. It's swap partition is:
> 
> 
>     Filename  Type            Size    Used    Priority
>     /dev/sda10      partition 1036152 4       -1
> 

According to "man swapon", priority is a value between 0 and 32767.  I
suspect -1 means the swap area isn't being used.  Did you mkswap(8) on it?

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