rebuild swap

[Andrew Bacchi]

What is the output of 'free'?  Maybe you're not using swap because you 
have more than enough RAM to satisfy your programs.  Here's my 'free' 
output, it isn't using swap, because it has tons of unused RAM.

[root at afsdev ~]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2074788    1283536     791252          0     250028     851592
-/+ buffers/cache:     181916    1892872
Swap:      2064376          0    2064376

debu wrote:
> Guys,
>   
> I created a new swap partion, partprobe
> did mkswap,swapon, sync, entry to fstab, remounted the filesystem etc. 
>
> But still my programs are not writing to swap, why? Is a server boot necessary, essential rather??
>
> I even did  echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to test the same. Still it doesnot write. Why? Any idea/exp??
> ~Debu
>
>   

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Andrew Bacchi
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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