[lug] swap space

[Andrew Diederich]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Jeff wrote:

> Is it possibleto force a flush of the swap space without rebooting or
> logging out?  My swap is completely used as is my memory and I think
> that it would help...  Thanks!
> 
> JEff

It is normal to use all of memory, or pretty close, anyway.  Here's on a box 
of mine:

andrew at computer:~ > uptime
  1:41pm  up 80 days, 4 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

andrew at computer:~ > free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        130660     104052      26608          0      62332      12752
-/+ buffers/cache:      28968     101692
Swap:       266072       4788     261284


Take a look at your load average.  If it's pretty high, then you just may
need more RAM, or adjust the program's you're running.  Swap should be
used not very much, I think, if you have enough RAM.

-- 
Andrew Diederich