On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 11:43 -0500, Eric Storch wrote:
> I am not sure why but my system is not swapping.
>
> When I run swapon -s it shows:
> Filename Type Size Used
> Priority/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition
> 2031608 0 -9
>
> When I run free -m it shows:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1003 986 16 0 81 450
> -/+ buffers/cache: 454 548
> Swap: 1983 0 1983
That does not look strange, except the priority of the swap is not the
same as mine.
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[jeff@eye_gore ~]$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used
Priority/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 partition 1048568
0 -1
[jeff@eye_gore ~]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 1265 564 700 0 34
297
-/+ buffers/cache: 233 1032
Swap: 1023 0 1023
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You have 1 GB memory and 2 GB swap. Until just a short time ago I was
using 512MB memory and 1 GB swap. Even with that small a memory amount
of memory my system never used swap.
I would not expect swapping to occur unless you have something running
that is highly memory intensive (a large database app, or something
similar that uses a lot of memory at times).
> The really odd thing here is when I open a terminal i get:
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> bash-3.00$
That seems strange but is not likely swap related.
> How can I force the kernel to swap?
> uname -a shows :
> 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> any info is good info, and thanks.
>
I don't think this is a swap issue. It may be something else.
