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* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [06-20-14 19:31]:
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.
yes, total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 36267 16417 19850 129 450 8224 -/+ buffers/cache: 7742 28525 Swap: 0 0 0 But it grows somewhat, system has only been up 19+ hrs, new kernel yesterday. My mail/web server only has 4gb and 3gb swap but doesn't use much swap: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3962 3772 189 1 679 2542 -/+ buffers/cache: 551 3411 Swap: 3071 1 3070 I probably should disable swap there also.... coulda, woulda, shoulda, ..... -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org