[CS-FSLUG] Oh man

[Fred A. Miller]

On Saturday 30 July 2005 1:32 am, Nathan T. wrote:
> On the topic of swap space and ram, I have 512 Mb of ram, but a high
> percentage of it is in use all the time, my swap space is always taken
> up at least 3% despite my ram not being completely used up yet.
>
> It was my understanding that the swap was used when the ram was full,
> it was a hard disk space used just like ram in case the actual ram was
> filled up. Why then does the ram always seem filled most of the way
> whether I'm using a computer with 128 Mb of ram, or a computer with
> 512 Mb of ram, and why is the swap in use when my ram isn't full yet
> but my computer will work without a swap partition if I choose not to
> have one?
>
> With 512 Mb of ram, I really don't notice if I don't have a swap
> partition, but I'm still curious as the behaviour of Linux depending
> on the size of the ram and the existence of the swap partition.

Nathan, MOST Linux distros. only create a swap file, not a partitian, if you 
don't do any "custom" setup during the install. I prefer to define my 
partitions including a 2G swap.

Fred

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