[ale] Swap in use when free physical exists?

[Jeff Hubbs]

John -

What you're seeing there is quite normal.  My general advice is, don't
be so hung up about how MUCH swap is or is not being taken up but rather
what the swap I/O is, which, in your case, will be negligible and will
remain so unless you pull some stunt like make -j 20 on your kernel
source or some such.  The kernel has simply made an anticipatory
decision to stuff some memory content into swap, thinking that you won't
miss it.

- Jeff

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:32, John Wells wrote:
> I have noticed that quite a bit of my swap space is in use a lot of the
> time, even when there's a bit of space left in physical.  Course, I've
> only about 6 megs left in physical, but I would think it would take
> advantage of those before filling swap.
> 
> -)free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:           247        240          6          0          5         94
> -/+ buffers/cache:        140        106
> Swap:          509        107        402
> 
> 
> Is it something regarding page size or is a problem with my kernel?  I'm
> using  2.4.18-14.  Thanks!
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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