Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261167AbVAaMZp (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:25:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261169AbVAaMZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:25:44 -0500 Received: from mailr.eris.qinetiq.com ([128.98.1.9]:35789 "HELO mailr.qinetiq-tim.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261167AbVAaMZc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:25:32 -0500 From: Mark Watts Organization: QinetiQ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: My System doesn't use swap! Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:32:50 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: Matthias-Christian Ott , Michael Buesch References: <41FE1B4B.2060305@tiscali.de> <200501311157.10932.mbuesch@freenet.de> <41FE2814.9030503@tiscali.de> In-Reply-To: <41FE2814.9030503@tiscali.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200501311232.50935.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.29.0.5; VDF: 6.29.0.52; host: mailr.qinetiq-tim.net) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Michael Buesch wrote: > >Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott : > >>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 Note that ~200MB are being used for disk caching. If your system need to allocate more ram, the disk cache will reduce before swap is used. Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Trusted Information Management Trusted Solutions and Services group GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB/iVyBn4EFUVUIO0RAmRBAJ46Vk2Z69/i+bMrj1gbSF8obHgEkgCgw8iU NgRDBYk+YoiRuWZZ2gFT8NE= =R02H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/