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Re: [TCLUG:320] mem vs. swap




How are you running your box?  As a workstation or a server?  Do
a "ps ax" and look at all your processes.  What types of deamons do you
run on system boot?  Apache, Samba, etc...  How big is your swap? 
1xRam, 2xRam, 2.5xRam?

j.heil

Quoting Ry4an Brase (ry4an@acm.cs.umn.edu):
> While fiddling around on my linux box I herd a lot of hard drive access
> so I check the mem vs swap numbers.  I found that my mem was 12% full
> (I've got 96 megs in now), and the swap was at 38%.  Usually I'm at
> about mem of 40 and Swap near zero.  What could cause such an
> imbalance.  Even now with the system having sat idle for about 10 mins
> I'm at mem 31% and swap 21%.  I'm I funadmentally misunderstanding the
> mem/swap thing?  Thanks.
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