Re: My System doesn't use swap!

[Rahul Karnik]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:50:35 +1100, Benno <benjl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 13:44:04 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> >Ok maybe I wasn't able to read the /free/ output correctly, but why is
> >no swap used (more than 60% ram are used)?
> 
> Why would you want to use swap when you still have free RAM? The kernel
> isn't using swap because there is no need to.

2004 common VM thread: Why is my swap being used, I still have free RAM?
2005 common VM thread: Why is my swap not being used, I only have some free RAM?

Guess Linux is getting something right -- we can't please anyone!!!

-Rahul
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