On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:52:24 -0400 (EDT), ne... <akabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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... > -- I'm using FC2, don't actually know :$:$ what kernel is currently active, or how to find out. These are the installed kernels (according to rpm -q kernel). kernel-2.6.5-1.358 kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 kernel-2.6.8-1.521 Thanks, Wouter