Re: How to check if swap is working?

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Subject: Re: How to check if swap is working?
From: Steven Ringwald <asric@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:35:07 -0800
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Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

Folks,

I had to rebuild my filesystem and I have no idea if my swap
is working or not, so how can I check it?



% cat /proc/swaps

This will tell you (in a parsable format) which swap devices exist andhow large they are, etc.


Steve

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- How to check if swap is working?
  - From: Daniel B. Thurman