perl -e '$x="x"x(.9*2*2**30)' On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Darío Mariani wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:41:11 -0300 > From: Darío Mariani <dmarian@xxxxxxxxx> > To: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: a swap partition utilization question > > 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 > >>- > >>: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > >>the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > > - > > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html