On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:32 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
This is the first time in all the years I have been using linux that not one byte of swap has been used after being up a few days. I was just wondering if anyone else is seeing this. The other reason I thought there was a problem is two days ago the pc stopped opening apps and locked up when I tried to shutdown.
I'm running quite a bit on this box with 1 Gig of memory, X 71%, acroread 17.6%, konsole 11% are the big hitters. # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 883 868 14 0 51 227 -/+ buffers/cache: 590 293 Swap: 7844 977 6866
Running evolution, firefox with 20 tabs (one containing a pdf doc) acroread 7 open with the user guide, one game running and konsole with three tabs. total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 774768 761652 13116 0 19192 355988 -/+ buffers/cache: 386472 388296 Swap: 3157136 0 3157136 uptime 1.5 days. I even issued swapoff -a, mkswap on both swap partitions and swapon -a with no difference. Will try filesystem swap next. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge