>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Ringwald >Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 7:32 PM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: Re: How to check if swap is working? > > >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 > > Yup! It works! Thanks for the tip again! Dan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.1/206 - Release Date: 12/16/2005
