Re: [SLE] swap space question in 9.3 install

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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 08:38:35 -0700

Greg,

On Monday 01 August 2005 14:40, Greg Wallace wrote:
> ...
>
> SWAP
> 1,052,216K TOTAL
> 224,240K USED
> 827,976K FREE
> 404,580K CACHED
>
> Maybe CACHED is the 224,240K USED plus 404,580K - 224,240K = 180,340K
> previously used; i. e., modules that were earlier called but are no
> longer running. If you invoke one of those modules again, it gets
> copied from CACHED to USED instead of from the medium to USED.

Really, guessing is quite inappropriate in this case:

<http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management> gives a pretty good
explanation of what these various parameters mean.

> Greg Wallace

Randall Schulz

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