On 2014-06-21 01:21, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [06-20-14 19:10]:
I have 8 GiB RAM. The other day, I was using about 3 GiB of swap. ... ps: system is only specked for 24gb ram but never complained when I added the 3 older 4gb chips back onto the board :^). ( Irish luck :^)?? )
My board does not allow more than 8 GiB. This instant, I have: KiB Mem: 8193508 total, 5638508 used, 2555000 free, 1090036 buffers KiB Swap: 22017008 total, 2114776 used, 19902232 free, 2363504 cached Notice the free + buffers + cached, it is bigger than swap. If I did not have swap, it would mean that I would get immediately more memory in use, with things that are not needed at all. My system would in fact be slower if I did not have swap! So I prefer those useless byte to be on disk, not ram. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)