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From: chuck gelm net <chuck@gelm.net>
To: "Bill J.Xu" <xujz@neusoft.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a swap partition utilization question
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:51:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FC3C0BC.6AC601E7@gelm.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001d01c3b31a$c003ec30$2a02010a@avwindows

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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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-25 20:51 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 [this message]
2003-11-25 21:41   ` Darío Mariani
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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