system not swapping

[jludwig]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 12:43 pm, Eric Storch wrote:
> I am not sure why but my system is not swapping.
>
> When I run swapon -s it shows:
> Filename                                Type            Size    Used
>  Priority/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01         partition
> 2031608 0       -9
>
> When I run free -m it shows:
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          1003        986         16          0         81        450
> -/+ buffers/cache:        454        548
> Swap:         1983          0       1983
>
> The really odd thing here is when I open a terminal i get:
>
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> bash-3.00$
>
> How can I force the kernel to swap?
> uname -a shows :
> 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> any info is good info, and thanks.
If I am reading this correctly you are running 1Gbyte of memory.
Your systen may never use swap, mine normally doesn't with 512Mbytes.
-- 
John H Ludwig

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