Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> The Thursday 2007-09-20 at 06:41 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
>>
>>> Ok,
>>>         Now I'm confused... After all of the discussion about ram size/swap
>>> size, I decided to try and make my 1G Toshiba P35 laptop start swapping
>>> stuff to the swap file.
>>>         I opened everything I could think of, 4 konsoles, 2 Open Office files,
>>> 3 Gimps, 2 Firefox, 2 Kongueror, Kjot, knotes, ksnapshot, kstars,
>>> Amarok, Thunderbird and several more, but the memory required, as shown
>>> by top, *never* exceeded 1G. The more I would open, the more slight
>>> slowness would occur, but I *always* had 13k - 15k of memory left and
>>> *nothing* was ever written to the swap file.
>> It probably was taken from the memory used for buffers. The command 
>> 'swapon -s' will also tell you the used swap and where.
>>
>> Just suspend the machine to disk, and get back: you will see that many 
>> things will remain swaped out. The computer is slow right after waking up, 
>> because needed things are not in ram and have to be read from disk. After 
>> a while, it is faster than before because it has got ridden himself of 
>> useless chunks in memory that has ben swapped out.
> 
> [root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # swapon -s
> Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
> /dev/hda5                       partition       2104472 0       -1
> 
>         What is strange is that man swapon says -s is equivalent to cat
> /proc/swaps. I do not have a /proc/swaps to be found. Hmm.. Thoughts?
> 
> 

Let me correct that. I do have a swaps it has the permissions:

[root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # ll /proc/swaps
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-09-20 07:33 /proc/swaps

The permission would seem to prevent writing to swap. What should the
permissions for swap be?


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