hi there,
On Monday 30 December 2002 20:38, you wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
Hello, I use a P4 based machine running SuSE Linux 8.0. I have a 20 GB Hard Disk & 256 MB RDRAM. At the time of installation, I reserved around 500 MB space for the /swap directory. As intended, it should share memory with the Linux Swap space. The problem is that, when I issue the top command, it shows that used swap space is zero & my Physical Memory is 70% used. I think it's pretty high since I don't use any software which is heavy on system requirments.
As far as i know the kernel tries to load all the programs it needs to run into the RAM, from the HDD. Its the primary memory. Loading programs into the RAM is the logical thing to do. As people have told me, there is not use of RAM if its free and you are swapping from the disk :-)
Only when its full does it swap out !
I tried the swapon command but in vain. Even eding the
/etc/fstab file didn't help. Is there any way to force swapping of memory ?? Please enlighten .... Thanx in advance ... Bhaskar Ghose [The Linuxer]
-rahul