Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Errrr.... I show that I do have the swap partition loaded with
available swap space showing however I see that 0 swap is being
used. Is this normal?
How do I test to see if swap will work when needed? I see
no activity at this time....
Linux tries not to use swap unless it has to.
To see swap being used, you could try exhausting your RAM with a
ramdisk, filling the disk, and then trying to run a program...
Assuming you have 1GB of RAM...
mount -ttmpfs -osize=1024m /mnt /mnt
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt
Now you ought to have stuff in swap like mad. :-)
Hope this gets you the info you need.
Steve
