[Nottingham] size of swap partition

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, James Dobson wrote:
> Even after 2 days it's started to use swap, so as you
> can see a system will use swap even if there is Mem
> free.

Yes, what is happening here is the paging out unaccessed block of memory[0]
and then using the freed memory as disk-cache for the files that *are*
actually in use (being accessed).

	-Paul

[0] eg. the 90% of the Apache libraries that haven't been touched since
    they were loaded at startup.
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