[Gllug] Swap never seems to be used

[Julian Somers]

On 7 May 2006, at 14:03, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> I have a server box with 512 MB of RAM and a 1.5 GB swap file and
> although the RAM usage gets high - the buffers and cache see to that.
> But swap is never touched. I have ensured it is a proper swap file and
> all that - but how can check this swap file actually works (I have no
> performance issues to worry about, I'm just intrigued)
>

Try LTP:
  http://ltp.sourceforge.net/

(Though I will admit that last time I wanted to do this I made a huge  
file with dd (dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/bigfile bs=1024 count=600000)  
and then opened it in vi.)

Julian

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