Ubuntu Server Won't Use Swap File
 

Hi, Basically I'm Still New To Linux, And I Seem To Be Having A Problem With Ubuntu Server Not Using My Swap File(Not Partition), And I Have No Idea Why, Iv Tryed Making A New One And It Still Doesn't Use It,

So I Thought Who Better To Ask Then You Guys =]!
I Know It'l Be Something Small Or Silly.

http://92.13.2.57/871532/swap.png
http://92.13.2.57/871532/ram.png

Thanks In Advance

Perhaps it doesn' need to swap, since there is enough memory?

I Guess But Isn't The Whole Point In A Swap File To Take Information Out Of Memory That Isn't Being Used Very Often?, Or Does It Only Kick In When Its At A Certain Point?.

Forgive Me I'm An Ex-Microsoft User.

Swap doesn't always get used. I have a system with 768MB ram that I use as a desktop system and the swap is hardly touched.

Hi,

Take a look at
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/swap-mini-howto.txt

There isn't any need of a swap. :) Don't worry, my swap doesn't do its job, too. It doesn't need to work :D lucky...

Swap indeed only gets active when the kernel "thinks" it
can make better use of the RAM for other purposes. Not
having active swap is a good thing - it means there's
plenty of RAM for caching/buffering available, and there's
no need to try and make any use of RAM other processes
are still holding on to.

Mine would eventually grow to a few 100K after a few
days of browsing w/o reboot, and viewing images and/or
watching movies.