From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: chuck gelm net <chuck@gelm.net>
Subject: Re: a swap partition utilization question
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:51:08 -0500
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To: "Bill J.Xu" <xujz@neusoft.com>
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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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