Steven Udell wrote:
Ok SuSE, I was told my SWAP file "must" be broken or not working right?? (if this is true its never worked from 5.0 SuSE through 5.2) No mater what I have compiling/20 things open/or whatever huge image I have up...I still get nothing/no useage out of my SWAP. 1) What do you think?
Do you ever use all 128 megs? I have 64, and rarely use it unless I have staroffice and netscape or gimp open at the same time. with the extra 64 you have, I wouldn't doubt that your swap is sitting idle. Saying you have 20 things open is somewhat trivial, because I could open 20 copies of Netscape, and it wouldn't take as much ram as 1 open x 20 (hope that makes sense, i know what I'm talking about:) ). I don't think compiling would be a good test, because with adequate ram, you shouldn't touch the swap. One example is where I worked. we had a 486sx-25 with 3 megs, and it took two days to compile a kernel, whereas a friend of mine can compile a kernel on his 386-16 with 16 megs in a few hours. the difference was whether the swap was necessary. --snip--
b) I never see my swap used at all. Never!
ee above --snip--
d) On Bootup I do see the message: <4>Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 (heh dunno) <4>Adding Swap: 124988k swap-space (priority -1) e) is swapon? what should I do to start it? if it aint.
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