On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 11:00 +0100, Joshua C. wrote: > 2009/2/7 Adrian Joian <adrian.joian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Than you everyone for the replies. Swapping do occurs (although > rarely) but this is not my concern. What I don't like is the fact, > that the kernel fills the memory with "what he thinks I would use/like > or have already used". I didn't know it will use the cached memory in > case it's needed. > > But then is the question: When swapping occurs where have the other > 2,6 gb ram gone? I don't believe I've opened so many apps that can > consume so much memory. The kernel is moderately aggressive about using swap, using it before it's strictly required by swapping out pages that haven't been used for a while to keep a certain amount of 'free' memory available. You can tune this behaviour by stuffing a higher or lower numeric value into /proc/sys/vm/swapiness -- 0 uses swap as little as possible, 100 frees as much RAM as possible, and the default is 60. -Chris -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
