Hi.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 06:27:42PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> This is a completely false statement, that for some reason gets propagated
> over and over again. From what I understand, the idea dates back to an
> early version of BSD which would duplicate all of your RAM to swap space,
> thus creating a redundant copy of RAM. So, you had to have more swap than
> ram in order to have any swap space at all. The way Linux, and most other
> operating systems do it is to append swap to RAM, so if you have 1GB of
> RAM, and 2GB of swap, you effectively have 3GB of memory. I have 1GB of
> RAM on my system, and almost never use any swap space. Of course, if I
> ran Gnome, I might use some of it, but I doubt I'd come even close to 2GB.
>
I do run Gnome full time. This system also runs apache and exim4. It takes over a day before the system starts to use any swap on this box with 1 gig of ram. It warely uses 128 meg of swap.
After being up over 3 days 13 hours, I finally am using 128 meg. I've been building a lot of source during the last 3 days. free looks like:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1003732 770820 232912 0 28036 291532
-/+ buffers/cache: 451252 552480
Swap: 489972 126468 363504
I should have set this box with less swap since it really isn't using it.
Kenny
