Hi, thanks for the quick responses...just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something here :)
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| Randy Kelsoe <rkelsoe@ev1.net>
Sent by: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com 10/22/2002 01:47 PM
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To: psyche-list@redhat.com cc: Subject: Re: Swap file not being utilized? |
Kevin.Lisciotti@bos.frb.org wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
You don't have a problem. You really don't want to ever have to use the
swap space, because when you do, system performance degrades badly.
When you run out of free system memory (ram), then the swap file gets
utilized. If you have 316 MB free, you're not even close to swapping.
>
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