Re: How to check if swap is working?

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:



Errrr....  I show that I do have the swap partition loaded with
available swap space showing however I see that 0 swap is being
used.  Is this normal?

How do I test to see if swap will work when needed?  I see
no activity at this time....

Linux tries not to use swap unless it has to.
To see swap being used, you could try exhausting your RAM with a ramdisk, filling the disk, and then trying to run a program...

Assuming you have 1GB of RAM...

mount -ttmpfs -osize=1024m /mnt /mnt
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt

Now you ought to have stuff in swap like mad. :-)

Hope this gets you the info you need.
Steve


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