From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dar=EDo_Mariani?= Subject: Re: a swap partition utilization question Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:41:11 -0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FC3CC77.5010008@fi.uba.ar> References: <001d01c3b31a$c003ec30$2a02010a@avwindows> <3FC3C0BC.6AC601E7@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >