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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2005-07-29 a las 00:41 +0100, Jonathan Brooks escribió: You forgot to email to the list.
Huh, what has swap got to do with suspending to disk? I thought it just mirrored what physical RAM you have installed?????
Well, ask the kernel developpers :-) They decided to use swap space as space for swapping or suspending to disk. It makes sense to me, tasks are just swapped out completely before swapping out memory pages; it is a raw partition, no drivers involved: just ideal. In fact, when restoring, some memory pages are not swapped back in, they stay off for days. Look: top - 02:42:07 up 16 days, 4 min, 25 users, load average: 0.08, 0.22, 0.27 Tasks: 166 total, 1 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 8.3% us, 2.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 88.4% id, 0.3% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 775852k total, 682772k used, 93080k free, 13196k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 224240k used, 827976k free, 404580k cached Notice the used swap area, and ram used, free and cached. - -- Saludos Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC6Xw5tTMYHG2NR9URAuJFAJ9CAB5Fju519deoTTdYnrC4ytvuJQCdHa8+ F4YxwOW784L6jm3ezoLSD7k= =S9Vq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----