On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:36:39 -0500, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:36:39 -0500, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Wrt/swap space: Linux uses a swap partition instead of a swap file.
Well, Linux can use a swap file if you want it to. Swap partitions
are more efficient, though.
>On a machine with 64 Mb of memory, you're not likely to see much disk
>activity, due to the availability of RAM and Linux's disk caching.
>To find out how much swap space is allocated on the drive, you need
>to look at the partition table with fdisk (Linux's, not MS); e.g.,
>fdisk /dev/hda for an IDE drive, or fdisk /dev/sda for a SCSI drive.
You can also just look at /proc/partitions, assuming you have the
/proc filesystem mounted (which virtually everyone does). Or
/proc/swaps, for that matter. :)
Kelly
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