From: Benno <benjl@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:50:35 +1100
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: My System doesn't use swap!
Message-ID: <20050131115034.GA9571@cse.unsw.edu.au>
References: <41FE1B4B.2060305@tiscali.de> <200501311157.10932.mbuesch@freenet.de> <41FE2814.9030503@tiscali.de>
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On Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 13:44:04 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>Michael Buesch wrote:
>
>>Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>:
>> 
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>I have mysterious Problem:
>>>90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used 
>>>and about about 150 MB are swappable.
>>>
>>>[matthias-christian@iceowl ~]$ free
>>>            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>>Mem:        383868     362176      21692          0         12     208956
>>>-/+ buffers/cache:     153208     230660
>>>   
>>>
>>                                   ^^^^^^
>>You have ~230M of 380M free.
>>Nothing mysterious here.
>>
>>
>Ok maybe I wasn't able to read the /free/ output correctly, but why is 
>no swap used (more than 60% ram are used)?

Why would you want to use swap when you still have free RAM? The kernel
isn't using swap because there is no need to.

Benno
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