On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 06:07, rassylkaformazaj@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hello all > > Also a question about swap. > > I have 4G of RAM and partition about 4G for swap. > Why?? I've heard that with big amount of physical memory Fedora > doesn't use it. > Also i'm very interested who "eats" this memory > > can someone explain plz? In most cases you don't want to use swap, if your system is actively using swap you will find that it will become very unresponsive. In most cases it is a waste of disk space to have more than 1GB of swap on a system. There are some applications where you may want and need huge amounts of swap. But for general application servers and particularly workstations use of swap will in most cases make the system performance appear to be very poor. Linux will utilize as much of memory as possible for buffers which improves the perceived performance of the system. If the system needs that memory for other applications those buffers will be released. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-null bottles of beer, You take one down, and pass it around, Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall.
