On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:09, Kevin.Lisciotti@bos.frb.org wrote: > On a new Linux server I just set up, I created a 500 meg swap file > which is equal to the amount of ram in the machine. The swap file is > active but shows 0% used, while the memory shows 184 meg used and 316 > meg free. I assume your results are similar to mine? This is completely normal, to not ever use the swap file, if it is never needed. (I have 512MB RAM and 640MB Swap) [ryan@vanessa]:[~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 500 490 9 0 63 239 -/+ buffers/cache: 187 313 Swap: 643 0 643 > The swap file is mounted as /dev/hda2, has the proper entry in > /etc/fstab yet it's never utilized. Is there a threshold as to when it > will kick in or could something else be wrong? I've never had issues > with the swap file in earlier versions. Thanks! I've loaded everything I can possibly think of on my system, including about 20 pictures and the only thing changing is the amount of buffers/cache. All is well, this is normal. Oh, look, I used just under 1MB of swap! Weeee... [ryan@vanessa]:[~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 500 493 7 0 15 226 -/+ buffers/cache: 252 248 Swap: 643 0 642 -Ryan -- Powered by Red Hat Linux 8.0 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list