SuSE 9.3 768M mem I have noticed the last couple of days that my system is -not- using any swap. Very strange. Swap is being enabled at boot: <6>Adding 1052632k swap on /dev/cciss/c0d0p2. Priority:42 extents:1 <6>Adding 2104504k swap on /dev/hdb2. Priority:42 extents:1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Downloaded a DVD iso file over 3 gig in size using firefox but the file size after download was only 2 gig. Downloaded same file using konqueror and the file size is correct. Anyone else experience either of these two strange behavior? -- 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
Ken Schneider wrote:
SuSE 9.3 768M mem
I have noticed the last couple of days that my system is -not- using any swap. Very strange. Swap is being enabled at boot:
Why is that strange? If all your apps fit within the 768M there is no need to swap anything. -- /Per Jessen, Zürich http://www.spamchek.ch/freetrial - überzeugen Sie sich - 30 Tage kostenlos und unverbindlich!
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:48 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
SuSE 9.3 768M mem
I have noticed the last couple of days that my system is -not- using any swap. Very strange. Swap is being enabled at boot:
Why is that strange? If all your apps fit within the 768M there is no need to swap anything.
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. -- 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
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:48 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
SuSE 9.3 768M mem
I have noticed the last couple of days that my system is -not- using any swap. Very strange. Swap is being enabled at boot:
Why is that strange? If all your apps fit within the 768M there is no need to swap anything.
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 Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
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
Ken Schneider wrote:
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 774768 761652 13116 0 19192 355988 -/+ buffers/cache: 386472 388296 Swap: 3157136 0 3157136
There is ~350M used as file-system cache - your apps only use about 400M. No need to swap. -- /Per Jessen, Zürich http://www.spamchek.ch/freetrial - for private, non-commercial use only EUR20/domain/year.
Quoting Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net>:
SuSE 9.3 768M mem
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Downloaded a DVD iso file over 3 gig in size using firefox but the file size after download was only 2 gig. Downloaded same file using konqueror and the file size is correct.
Sounds like Firefox does not have large file support. Odd if it doesn't. Or maybe not. wget does not have large file support. Jeffrey
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