From: Benno <benjl@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: My System doesn't use swap!
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:50:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050131115034.GA9571@cse.unsw.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41FE2814.9030503@tiscali.de>
On Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 13:44:04 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>Michael Buesch wrote:
>
>>Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>:
>>
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>I have mysterious Problem:
>>>90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used
>>>and about about 150 MB are swappable.
>>>
>>>[matthias-christian@iceowl ~]$ free
>>> total used free shared buffers cached
>>>Mem: 383868 362176 21692 0 12 208956
>>>-/+ buffers/cache: 153208 230660
>>>
>>>
>> ^^^^^^
>>You have ~230M of 380M free.
>>Nothing mysterious here.
>>
>>
>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.
Benno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-31 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-31 11:49 Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-01-31 10:57 ` Michael Buesch
2005-01-31 12:44 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-01-31 11:50 ` Benno [this message]
2005-01-31 22:59 ` Rahul Karnik
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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