Dear Chuck:
But I found that other linux box had used swap partition when many physical RAM left.
root@FW_knl:/home/shiy# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255320 247564 7756 0 15652 197560
-/+ buffers/cache: 34352 220968
Swap: 996020 1484 994536
root@FW_knl:/home/shiy#
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "chuck gelm net" <chuck@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Bill J.Xu" <xujz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: a swap partition utilization question
> 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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