On 2017-12-15 22:54, Roger Price wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017, Richard Brown wrote:
As I already provided in my earlier posts on this thread The more swap space you allocate, the more the kernel will try to use it
Of course if you have a swap space larger than 6GB, you will be using more than 2GB
Is this true? On the 42.3 machine on which I am typing this, command free reports: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 32931508 10458908 22472600 144576 648768 4378808 -/+ buffers/cache: 5431332 27500176 Swap: 66297844 0 66297844
32 GByte of memory, 63 Gbyte swap. 0 swap in use after 9 days.
That's right. The kernel is rather more clever than what Richard thinks :-)
The 2.4 and later swap algorithms will always try to use a good chunk of the available swap space
This is not happening for me. Roger
QED :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)