From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bill J.Xu" Subject: Re: a swap partition utilization question Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:52:17 +0800 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <001001c3b3d9$111352a0$2a02010a@avwindows> References: <001d01c3b31a$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" To: chuck gelm net Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Dear Chuck: But I found that other linux box had used swap partition when many physical RAM left. root@FW_knl:/home/shiy# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 255320 247564 7756 0 15652 197560 -/+ buffers/cache: 34352 220968 Swap: 996020 1484 994536 root@FW_knl:/home/shiy# Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "chuck gelm net" To: "Bill J.Xu" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 4:51 AM Subject: Re: a swap partition utilization question > 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 >