Re: swap partition being used, But pleany of free memory ? (fwd)

babydr (babydr@nwrain.net)
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:41:05 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Rob Glover wrote:

> Also, your swap file is not meant to be empty forever :>

Rob,

I'd settle for being consistent from one machine to another
the two name servers, one is primary for approx. 200 domains
plus the regular stuff for the rest of the support machines.
the other is very lightly loaded that way, but I keep it busy
in other ways. that's the stuff below.

My system at home very simularly configured & loaded simularly
to the number 2 above. & I (almost) never find anything is
using swap by 'free', and yes it has swap turned on.

Just very uncertain as to what it means. JimL

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> On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:
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> > On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, babydr wrote:
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> > >
> > [...]
> > >
> > > Any help greatly appreciated, JimL
> > >
> > >
> > > ---- include ps.junk file ----
> > [...]
> > > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > > root 116 0.0 0.2 768 156 9 S Oct 22 0:00 (agetty)
> > [...]
> > > total used free shared buffers cached
> > > Mem: 63128 20820 42308 9396 7128 5612
> > > -/+ buffers: 8080 55048
> > > Swap: 130748 828 129920
> > >
> >
> > Look, see that agetty ? It's swaped swaped out, if you go to VT9,
> > and hit return, it'll get swaped back.
> >
> > There's proberbly some other stuff swaped out too (ps -m to see;), if
> > your really botherd turn the swap off, and back on:
> >
> > swapoff -a; swapon -a
> >
> > But make sure you have enough memory free to do this; really check don't
> > assume, or you end up with your box tring to swap all the data in, but
> > swaping out other data to try to make room (ie locked up).
> >
> > Bryn
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