Why would my server be swapping...
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akabi at speakeasy.net
Thu Oct 14 12:52:24 UTC 2004
On Oct 14, 2004 at 14:38, Wouter van Vliet in a soothing rage wrote:
>G'day my fellow Fedorians,
>
>Crappy intro, huh? Anyway, I've got a question - bit of an oddity I
>noticed in the output to the "free" command. I'll post that output
>before I continue:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 515536 196040 319496 0 22448 120144
>-/+ buffers/cache: 53448 462088
>Swap: 1052248 151476 900772
>
>Hope the mail brings it over nice and columny. Anyway, what it shows
>is 311 megabytes of free memory and 147MB used swap space. Isn't that
>a bit odd, and shouldn't the server only be swapping when all (or at
>least most) of the RAM is in use?
You left out the kernel version you use. Swap usage varies between
kernel versions.
Mem: 515828k total, 354288k used, 161540k free, 115340k buffers
Swap: 1048568k total, 132k used, 1048436k free, 92048k cached
This is from my FC3t2 box.
N.Emile...
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