Swap Space

[Tom Mitchell]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 edwarner99 at yahoo.com wrote:

> After switching from RH9 to FC1, I'v noticed that the
> memory swap space has been, and still is (0) zero.
> I have kept the same structure, haven't added anything
> new.

> With RH9, my swap space would climb to 5 or 6 meg.
> What's the difference now with FC1?

How are you observing and measuring this?

On this fedora box I see non zero memory and swap use
with "top" and /proc/{meminfo,swaps}.

 04:45:52  up 1 day,  7:31,  3 users,  load average: 2.71, 2.62, 2.44
102 processes: 98 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total   67.0%    0.0%   32.9%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    0.0%
Mem:   514792k av,  510232k used,    4560k free,       0k shrd,  125620k buff
       169988k active,             102008k inactive
Swap:  530104k av,    2904k used,  527200k free                   71576k cached

$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/hda5                       partition       530104  2904    -1
$ cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  527147008 469766144 57380864        0 147730432 41930752
Swap: 542826496  3051520 539774976
MemTotal:       514792 kB
MemFree:         56036 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:        144268 kB
Cached:          39140 kB
SwapCached:       1808 kB
Active:         160808 kB
Inactive:        95868 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514792 kB
LowFree:         56036 kB
SwapTotal:      530104 kB
SwapFree:       527124 kB

Make sure you reboot after updating utilities that fetch kernel
data.


                                                                                

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