From: "Darío Mariani" <dmarian@fi.uba.ar>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a swap partition utilization question
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:41:11 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FC3CC77.5010008@fi.uba.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3FC3C0BC.6AC601E7@gelm.net
Try creating a program that consumes 90% or more of the physical memory.
chuck gelm net wrote:
> Hi, Bill:
>
> Perhaps swap memory will not be used until
> all physical memory has been consumed.
>
> HTH, Chuck
>
> "Bill J.Xu" wrote:
>
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>After booting my linux box,I add a swap partition using "swapon /dev/hda5".but I found that swap partition was nerver used even 2M physics memory left.
>>
>>why?
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-25 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-25 6:09 a swap partition utilization question Bill J.Xu
2003-11-25 20:51 ` chuck gelm net
2003-11-25 21:41 ` Darío Mariani [this message]
2003-11-25 21:46 ` Michael French
2003-11-27 4:31 ` rich+ml
2003-11-26 4:52 ` Bill J.Xu
2003-11-26 12:32 ` Glynn Clements
2003-11-26 13:02 ` Bill J.Xu
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