Re: swap space

Eric Bosch (ecbosch@tyrell.net)
Tue, 1 Aug 1995 20:09:51 -0500 (CDT)


Try running X and doing heavy load on your disk. Run a few applications,
and you'll probably see some swap usage. It is only used when necessary.

On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, Michael J. Drons wrote:

> I am new to this group and am not sure if this belows here but I am going
> to post anyways...
>
> I have a 486/66 with local bus
> I installed from slackware 2.2
> I am using kernel version 1.2.11
> I am using gcc version 2.6.3
> I have 16M of ram
> and 32M of swap space....
> 16M swapon /dev/hda2 and 16M on /dev/hda3
>
>
> My question: Why doesnt my mschine use the space space????
> When usinig the command free I always says that my machine has
> 32992 free and 32992 available. Has anybody seen this????
>
> Please help....
>
> Mike Drons
> pa_mjd@coe.neu.edu
>
>