From: Rahul Karnik <deathdruid@gmail.com>
To: Benno <benjl@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: My System doesn't use swap!
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:59:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b64f7f0501311459320d503e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050131115034.GA9571@cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:50:35 +1100, Benno <benjl@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> On Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 13:44:04 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> >Ok maybe I wasn't able to read the /free/ output correctly, but why is
> >no swap used (more than 60% ram are used)?
>
> Why would you want to use swap when you still have free RAM? The kernel
> isn't using swap because there is no need to.
2004 common VM thread: Why is my swap being used, I still have free RAM?
2005 common VM thread: Why is my swap not being used, I only have some free RAM?
Guess Linux is getting something right -- we can't please anyone!!!
-Rahul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-31 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-31 11:49 My System doesn't use swap! Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-01-31 10:57 ` Michael Buesch
2005-01-31 12:44 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-01-31 11:50 ` Benno
2005-01-31 22:59 ` Rahul Karnik [this message]
2005-01-31 12:32 ` Mark Watts
2005-01-31 20:29 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-02-01 15:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-02-01 16:36 ` DervishD
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