On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 15:02 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Frank Elsner wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:09:19 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> A very old (11 years?) but much loved desktop
> >> has developed a nasty habit of stopping me editing
> >> because the file, it says, is Read-only.
> >>
> >> I suspect this is because the swap partition
> >> (on an even older SCSI disk) is not functioning.
> >>
> >> How does one find which swap device or devices is in use?
> >> ("top" says there is 2GB swap space, but 0k in use.)
> >
> > cat /proc/swaps or swapon -s
>
> Thanks for that.
> Actually, these give the same information in this case as "top", eg
> ----------------------------------
> [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo swapon -s
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/sdb3 partition 1959920 0 -1
> ----------------------------------
>
> It seems that swap is not being used, for some reason.
> This machine has just under 1GB RAM (the max for this motherboard)
> so it is not clear why swap is not in use.
>
> I think maybe the machine is sick:
I can think of may reasons for swap not to be used at a particular
moment.For example, at this moment the swap on my desktop has 0 bytes
used. If swap is never used then one can start worrying.
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