On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Darwin Zins wrote: > I was running Mandrake 9.1 and I very rarely used the swapfile. > Fedora, is swapping my applications out and using the ram for file > cache. Is there any way to change this? To make it so that it never > swaps applications out unless it absolutely has to? > > Right now for example my system has been sitting idle for the last few > hours, the file cache has grown and grown in memory use, while User has > gotten smaller and smaller and the swapfile has grown in use. Right > now I would say 80% of my ram is in use by cache and 20% by > User/Shared/Buffers and the swapfile has 70MB in it that must be from > User. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, The apps that are swapped out are probably literally doing nothing. Mine memory usage over 1gig of RAM is like that on my workstation-come-DB-server and performance is excellent. -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
