for some reason opensuse 11.2 isnt using the swap,I have 2gbs of ram and 2g of swap but swap is at 0 usage and ram at 544.8megs in system monitor.is this normal and if not is there a way to fix it?
Swap not being used is a good thing. It means you have enough RAM. Swap, you should understand, is a last resort, when there isn’t enough RAM to hold everything at the same time, and is much much much slower than RAM.
So don’t worry, be happy. 
yeah i know its much slower lol im running opensuse on an old ide that has 30mb/s max transfer rate.was just wondering if it might have been a problem.but i guess everythings good then if its only last resort. thx for the reply
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Also as a note in case you’re curious, you can configure a system’s
“swappiness”. I’ll leave it to you to work out how if you’re interested
(Google will tell you a few dozen ways with one quoted keyword from this
post) but just know it’s possible.
Also, as ken yap mentioned, chances are good that if you ever need to rely
on it in a case where your RAM is completely used for something other than
performance-improving caching you’ll wish you were dead (or that your
computer was) because your computer will seem very sluggish.
Good luck.
On 07/18/2010 09:06 AM, Customize wrote:
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> yeah i know its much slower lol im running opensuse on an old ide that
> has 30mb/s max transfer rate.was just wondering if it might have been a
> problem.but i guess everythings good then if its only last resort. thx
> for the reply
>
>
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On 2010-07-18 14:56 GMT Customize wrote:
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> for some reason opensuse 11.2 isnt using the swap,I have 2gbs of ram
> and 2g of swap but swap is at 0 usage and ram at 544.8megs in system
> monitor.is this normal and if not is there a way to fix it?
Show output of “top | head” and “swapon -s”, please.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))
On 07/19/2010 09:49 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2010-07-18 14:56 GMT Customize wrote:
>
>>
>> for some reason opensuse 11.2 isnt using the swap,I have 2gbs of ram
>> and 2g of swap but swap is at 0 usage and ram at 544.8megs in system
>> monitor.is this normal and if not is there a way to fix it?
>
> Show output of “top | head” and “swapon -s”, please.
Also show the output of “free”.