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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/11 Philip Wyett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philwyett@gmx.com">philwyett@gmx.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 18:36 +0100, Richard Thomas wrote:<br>
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> Hiya<br>
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> is it normal for linux ( ubutnu) to never use the swap<br>
> I've noticed i can be using virtualbox and playing guildwars and<br>
> listening to music with amarok<br>
> all at the same time and the swap is never used<br>
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> is this normal or has the install of ubuntu messed up some where<br>
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> Richard<br>
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</div>The immortal question here is ... How much RAM do you have?<br>
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The chances are you are occasionally using swap but it is being cleared<br>
by the time you go looking. I on average have 10 apps running and can be<br>
building the Crystal Space game engine using jam and invoking multiple<br>
shell processes to use all my cpu cores and hardly touch swap on my<br>
laptop with 2Gb of RAM and running Ubuntu <a href="http://8.04.1." target="_blank">8.04.1.</a><br>
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Regards<br>
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Phil<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>I have 2gig of ram <br>i have conky running to monitor the system , when I used gentoo linux I noticed that the swap was in use most of the time even if only a tiny amount <br>but since i moved to ubuntu 8.4 & 8.10 beta it does not touch the swap and i was just concerned <br>
so thank you for the quick reply <br></div></div><br></div>