Didnt use swap memory in CentOS 5.4
 

I found out that my CentOS 5.4 linux does not use any swap memory!!
here is the #top output:

top - 10:02:49 up 27 min, 5 users, load average: 4.22, 3.45, 2.24
Tasks: 173 total, 4 running, 166 sleeping, 0 stopped, 3 zombie
Cpu(s): 71.1%us, 26.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.2%id, 0.0%wa, 2.7%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3081388k total, 1729216k used, 1352172k free, 69544k buffers
Swap: 5140760k total, 0k used, 5140760k free, 865316k cached

I wonder why swap memory is not used! I also face auto-restart issue while running few tasks. Does it relate to the swap memory???

uanme -r -> 2.6.18-164.el5


I remember that my i have allocated about 5G for swap memory. However I put it into different partition and far away from root partition due to diskspace partition.
Does it matter?


I do not know how to show the swap memory partition or partition map over here.


here is the mount output
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /mnt/win_c type fuseblk (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda5 on /mnt/win_f type fuseblk (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda6 on /app type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

If the system wants to use the swap it will.
Why didn't you include the users that are chewing up all the CPU in that top listing ?.

I did run several simulation. The swap memory remained the same, 0k used