[CS-FSLUG] Oh man

[David M]

On Saturday July 30 2005 7:21 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> 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.

2G? Wow thats a lot.

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David M.