[Bradford] is it normal ?

[Richard Thomas]

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2008/10/11 Philip Wyett <philwyett at gmx.com>

> On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 18:36 +0100, Richard Thomas wrote:
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> > Hiya
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> > is it normal for linux ( ubutnu) to never use the swap
> > I've noticed i can be using virtualbox and playing guildwars and
> > listening to music with amarok
> > all at the same time and the swap is never used
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> > is this normal or has the install of ubuntu messed up some where
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> > Richard
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> The immortal question here is ... How much RAM do you have?
>
> The chances are you are occasionally using swap but it is being cleared
> by the time you go looking. I on average have 10 apps running and can be
> building the Crystal Space game engine using jam and invoking multiple
> shell processes to use all my cpu cores and hardly touch swap on my
> laptop with 2Gb of RAM and running Ubuntu 8.04.1.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
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I have  2gig of ram
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

but since i moved to ubuntu 8.4 & 8.10 beta it does not touch the swap and i
was just concerned
so thank you for the quick reply
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