How to find which swap in use?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 23:33:53 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 01:23 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> The old machine I'm talking about has less than 1GB RAM,
> and is running Fedora-12, so surely it must need to swap sometimes.
> 
> Is there any way of forcing a machine to swap?

There's a boot-time parameter to limit the amount of RAM it uses. That
should force the issue if you want to. See bootparam(1).

Or just use Open Office :-)

poc



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