On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:00:10 -0400, Hanh Do wrote: > I am running Red Hat 7.3 and seeing problems with application not being able to use swap space. > What problems specifically? Any error message? > >From the free command, my app is using up almost all of RAM, Not even a third of your RAM is occupied. Notice how much of your RAM is taken for buffering/caching, because otherwise it would not be used at all. That improves performance. It will be freed whenever a process wants more RAM. No need to use swap space yet. > # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 902928 892664 10264 0 30224 659656 > -/+ buffers/cache: 202784 700144 > Swap: 1052248 0 1052248 > > so why is swap not used at all. > > Here is the result of swapon -s command: > > #swapon -s > > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/hda2 partition 1052248 0 -2 For testing you could raise the swap priority (see "man swapon") and let a test program allocate roughly a GB. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 loadavg: 1.05 1.04 0.62 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
