On Oct 14, 2004 at 14:38, Wouter van Vliet in a soothing rage wrote: >G'day my fellow Fedorians, > >Crappy intro, huh? Anyway, I've got a question - bit of an oddity I >noticed in the output to the "free" command. I'll post that output >before I continue: > > total used free shared buffers cached >Mem: 515536 196040 319496 0 22448 120144 >-/+ buffers/cache: 53448 462088 >Swap: 1052248 151476 900772 > >Hope the mail brings it over nice and columny. Anyway, what it shows >is 311 megabytes of free memory and 147MB used swap space. Isn't that >a bit odd, and shouldn't the server only be swapping when all (or at >least most) of the RAM is in use? You left out the kernel version you use. Swap usage varies between kernel versions. Mem: 515828k total, 354288k used, 161540k free, 115340k buffers Swap: 1048568k total, 132k used, 1048436k free, 92048k cached This is from my FC3t2 box. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks. 08:50:11 up 108 days, 2:04, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
