[Gllug] Swap never seems to be used

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Sun May 7 22:03:28 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 22:40 +0100, Chris Miles (lists) wrote:
> Have you tried looking with "top"? top lists how big the file is and how
> much is used, if the space is mentioned it is available for use.
> 
I did, and it was reporting no usage. Truth was I just wasn't stressing
the system enough, even when the free memory dropped to about 6 MB. When
I really pushed it hard it started to use the swap.

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