new memory = more swap?

[Craig Thomas]

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 11:14, William Hooper wrote:

> Another option would be to use swap files.
> http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/x1790.html

Thank you.  After reading chapter 7, I think I don't need more swap
space.  Below is the output of free when running (but hardly using) all
the apps I generally run at once:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:        385032     379860       5172          0      11840    
132144
-/+ buffers/cache:     235876     149156
Swap:       514072      11848     502224

This means I am using very little of my swap space and therefore I don't
need more.  Is this right or am I off base?  

TIA

-Craig


> That is a very general statement that is wrong in a lot of cases.