How to check if swap is working?

[Kam Leo]

On 12/16/05, Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
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> >Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 6:41 PM
> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> >Subject: RE: How to check if swap is working?
> >
> >
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> >>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Steven Ringwald
> >>Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 6:35 PM
> >>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> >>Subject: Re: How to check if swap is working?
> >>
> >>
> >>Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >>
> >>>Folks,
> >>>
> >>>I had to rebuild my filesystem and I have no idea if my swap
> >>>is working or not, so how can I check it?
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>% cat /proc/swaps
> >>
> >>This will tell you (in a parsable format) which swap devices
> >exist and
> >>how large they are, etc.
> >>
> >>Steve
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >Ok, thanks to Warren and Steve for the tips!
> >
> >Turns out that my swap failed to work.  I thought that when I
> >did a mkswap, a label would be used and the fstab would somehow
> >get correctly set.  I was wrong on both counts. grrr.
> >
> >I had to hardpath the swap (/dev/hda3) into the fstab and
> >then run swapon -a command.  I rechecked swap and now I have
> >something other than "0"
> >
> >Again, thanks for the tips!
> >
> >Dan
> >
>
>
> Errrr....  I show that I do have the swap partition loaded with
> available swap space showing however I see that 0 swap is being
> used.  Is this normal?
>
> How do I test to see if swap will work when needed?  I see
> no activity at this time....
>
> Dan
>

Use of swap depends upon the amount of physical memory that you have
installed.  Try running Openoffice.og Writer and several other big
applications such as GIMP and Eclipse.