Screen Freeze on F7

Alan M. Evans fedoralist at alanevans.org
Tue Jul 24 18:48:53 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:34 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Alan M. Evans wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 09:24 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >> Mem:    482776k total,   475472k used,     7304k free,    29076k buffers
> >> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   163588k cached
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> This means it was using the swap partition on the hard drive.
> > 
> > What swap partition? Your system doesn't have any swap(?!?).
> > 
> > Your memory usage is almost completely saturated and you have *NO* swap
> > to fall back on. If it hasn't already then you're kernel freemem killer
> > is very soon going to start cutting the legs from beneath random
> > programs all over your process list.
> > 
> > 
> 	Alan please explain why 163588k cached Swap drive is not enough?

That cached amount is from your used Mem. You have *no* swap: 0k total.





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