[TriLUG] FW: Is it just me, or...

Nathan Conrad conrad at cs.unc.edu
Wed Mar 13 17:42:31 EST 2002


On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:38:25PM -0500, Justin Johnson wrote:
> I'll leave the swap as it is until I have a real reason to change it. BTW,
> how do I monitor swap usage?
Either 'swapon -s`:

max:/home/conrad# swapon -s
Filename			Type		Size	Used	Priority
/dev/ide/host1/bus0/target1/lun0/part4 partition	102396	0	128
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part14 partition	262136	152964	256

or `free`:

max:/home/conrad# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        381812     375024       6788          0      46992     180348
-/+ buffers/cache:     147684     234128
Swap:       364532     152964     211568

> 
> I agree with you Chris. I never understood why, as I increase the physical
> memory, I have to also increase the virtual memory. Seems like it should be
> the other way around.
> 
> JJ
> 
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