From: Alvaro Lopes <alvieboy@alvie.com>
To: war <war@starband.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Swap Usage with Kernel 2.4.14
Date: 17 Nov 2001 11:18:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1005995937.694.0.camel@dwarf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BF5B275.215D6D44@starband.net>
In-Reply-To: <3BF5B275.215D6D44@starband.net>
On Sáb, 2001-11-17 at 00:42, war wrote:
> Regular usage on my box, launching netscape, opera, pan, xchat, gaim;
> the kernel eventually digs into swap.
>
> However, the swap is never released?
>
> Mem: 900596K av, 185896K used, 714700K free, 0K shrd, 4172K
> buff
> Swap: 2048276K av, 63728K used, 1984548K free 91176K
> cached
>
> Are there any settings I should have set or be aware of?
>
> I current use 4GB support, 1GB of ram, 2GB of swap.
>
> Having 1GB, I thought I had enough memory for basic operations without
> the disk swapping like mad.
>
AFAIK with 2.4.14 processes can be in memory and swap at the same time.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-17 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-17 0:42 Swap Usage with Kernel 2.4.14 war
2001-11-17 2:13 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-17 11:18 ` Alvaro Lopes [this message]
2001-11-17 15:05 ` safemode
2001-11-17 21:43 ` Mike Fedyk
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2001-11-17 14:59 Ed Tomlinson
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