[ale] Swap Memory usage

[David Corbin]

On Friday 19 September 2003 13:06, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 12:32, David Corbin wrote:
> > Why does Linux use swap memory when there is RAM available?
> >
> > David
>
> Are you sure it does?

I'm sure.

>From top:
Mem:  1030700k av,  950232k used,   80468k free,       0k shrd,   48388k buff
                    753504k actv,   51992k in_d,   20204k in_c
Swap:  248968k av,  238020k used,   10948k free                  284572k 
cached


Now, at the moment I'm near maxmium RAM, but at the time I asked, I was around 
60% Ram utilization.  I suppose it's possible that I reached 1.25G total 
memory consumption at some point in this "boot".  I'll watch more closely, 
the next time I reboot.
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