On Monday 30 March 2009 09:54:54 pm Robert Nichols wrote: > Dave Stevens wrote: > > current example: > > > > top - 16:14:05 up 10 days, 43 min, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.13, > > 0.16 Tasks: 197 total, 3 running, 194 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 5.3%us, 4.1%sy, 0.2%ni, 90.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, > > 0.0%st Mem: 4129236k total, 3817620k used, 311616k free, 332628k > > buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 84k used, 2031524k free, 1446812k > > cached > > > > So this shows 2 gigs of swap with 84K used. Fine, But it doesn't show the > > 84K in use right after boot time and in fact only shows up after there's > > been some especially heavy use of the machine. But it seems to be a kind > > of high-water mark. When the level of machine use goes down, even way > > down, the swap still shows as being in use and at the same level. I find > > this counter-intuitive and think I may be misunderstanding the figure. > > It's the amount currently in use. What you are seeing in swap are those > pages that got written once when you booted and logged in and were never > referenced again, thus no reason to bring them back in from swap. You > can run "swapoff -a; swapon -a" to force them back in, but eventually > those same pages are going to end up in swap again, even with little > memory pressure. Thank you. Much obliged. D > > -- > Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. > Do NOT delete it. -- Canada must refuse to be entangled in any more wars fought to make the world safe for capitalism. -- The Regina Manifesto, 1933 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
