From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261327AbVAaU3i (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:29:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261330AbVAaU3i (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:29:38 -0500 Received: from lakermmtao02.cox.net ([68.230.240.37]:35064 "EHLO lakermmtao02.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261327AbVAaU3g (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:29:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <41FE2814.9030503@tiscali.de> References: <41FE1B4B.2060305@tiscali.de> <200501311157.10932.mbuesch@freenet.de> <41FE2814.9030503@tiscali.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Buesch , Linux Kernel Mailing List From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: My System doesn't use swap! Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:29:35 -0500 To: Matthias-Christian Ott X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Jan 31, 2005, at 07:44, 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)? Swap is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. Why put things there if you still have RAM left? The kernel only puts things in swap when it has no more RAM _and_ has already deleted big chunks of its disk cache. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM/CS/IT/U d- s++: a18 C++++>$ UB/L/X/*++++(+)>$ P+++(++++)>$ L++++(+++) E W++(+) N+++(++) o? K? w--- O? M++ V? PS+() PE+(-) Y+ PGP+++ t+(+++) 5 X R? tv-(--) b++++(++) DI+ D+ G e->++++$ h!*()>++$ r !y?(-) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------