Sarge: plenty of free RAM, but uses swap

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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:32:59 +0100
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Hi all!

I just noticed that sarge is using swap, but there is still plenty of
memory free:
# free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1036532 441552 594980 0 23732 265492
-/+ buffers/cache: 152328 884204
Swap: 351752 0 351752

# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:34:30 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

My previous distro (Fedora2) didn't use swap at all. It just occupied
almost all RAM, of course with lots of "cached" showing up at # free.
How can one force it to use RAM first and then swap ?
(I've google, but didn't find a solution)

Thanks & best regards,
Hannes.

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