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Old 05-20-2005, 07:36 AM   #1
raj_cet04
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Unhappy swap is not working in Fedora

Dear all

i have installed Fedora Core 3 in my duel Xeon Machine, now it seems that the Fedora is not using the swap present in the
outpu of free is shown below
#free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1034028 1013768 20260 0 116092 632968
-/+ buffers/cache: 264708 769320
Swap: 2048248 0 2048248

what should i do regarding this ?
erlier i used redhat 9 and it was using that swap

Rgrds

rajesh
 
Old 05-20-2005, 08:11 AM   #2
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Swap is only used when necessary, so don't worry too much. You seem to have ample ram so thats why swap is probably not being used.
Last edited by reddazz; 05-22-2005 at 03:10 AM.
 
Old 05-21-2005, 05:44 PM   #3
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Approx. 3/4 of your memory is free and only used temporarily for buffers and caches.
 
  


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