90% of the memory is used with 0% of swap.
Don't know what's up, but it's really weird.
Thanks for the responses though.
- Matt
Timothy Writer wrote:
> P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
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>>On Friday 30 August 2002 07:42 pm, Timoth
P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 30 August 2002 07:42 pm, Timothy Writer wrote:
> > 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
On Saturday 31 August 2002 21:09, P wrote:
> It's interesting that I have the same observation on rh 7.3 ... whenever
I've
> observed my swap activity, it's always zero. But, your question about
> executing "mkswap" implies that the user is supposed to do t
On Friday 30 August 2002 07:42 pm, Timothy Writer wrote:
> 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 o
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 s
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 runni
Hello,
I have missed the previous discussion, but
I think that this issue comes up quite regularly.
If you need to swap, you want to minimize head
movement and maximize throughput. So you can IMHO:
- use a different disk than where the most
of your data activity occurs
- if this is
> We have been asked not to keep this disussion up on the list.
There's hardly any point to discussing it off-list.
>
> We keep saying the same things over and over so it is hardly productive.
>
> But one more time:
>
> 1. There are certaily pathological situat
