Re: Swap file not being utilized?

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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

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