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Subject: Re: Swap Usage with Kernel 2.4.14
From: Alvaro Lopes <alvieboy@alvie.com>
To: war <war@starband.net>
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On S?b, 2001-11-17 at 00:42, war wrote:
> Regular usage on my box, launching netscape, opera, pan, xchat, gaim;
> the kernel eventually digs into swap.
> 
> However, the swap is never released?
> 
> Mem:   900596K av,  185896K used,  714700K free,       0K shrd,    4172K
> buff
> Swap: 2048276K av,   63728K used, 1984548K free                   91176K
> cached
> 
> Are there any settings I should have set or be aware of?
> 
> I current use 4GB support, 1GB of ram, 2GB of swap.
> 
> Having 1GB, I thought I had enough memory for basic operations without
> the disk swapping like mad.
> 

AFAIK with 2.4.14 processes can be in memory and swap at the same time. 

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