Re: a swap partition utilization question

[Darío Mariani <dmarian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try creating a program that consumes 90% or more of the physical memory.

chuck gelm net wrote:
> Hi, Bill:
>
>  Perhaps swap memory will not be used until
> all physical memory has been consumed.
>
> HTH, Chuck
>
> "Bill J.Xu" wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > After booting my linux box,I add a swap partition using "swapon /dev/hda5".but I found that swap partition was nerver used even 2M physics memory left.
> >
> > why?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Bill
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