Re: Sarge: plenty of free RAM, but uses swap

From: Hannes Mayer (debiandude_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/30/05

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    Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:38:08 +0100
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    On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:55:57 +0200 (IST), Micha Feigin
    <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
    > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Hannes Mayer wrote:
    >
    > > 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)
    > >
    >
    > If you read the output, in the swap entry you have
    >
    > total: 351752
    > used: 0
    > free: 351752
    >
    > So you are using 0 swap at the moment. Free just tells you that you have
    > 351752 available (notice the column titles)

    WOW! Silly me!
    Thanks Björn and Micha!

    I guess I was a bit confused, because I could hear the harddrive every
    few seconds doing something tiny. Is there any way to check which
    program is currently doing disk I/O ?

    Thanks a lot,
    Hannes.

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