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Re: PP200 w/ 128M RAM never uses SWAP :(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dataforge)
Mon Nov 25 08:33:06 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:31:19 -0500 (EST)
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On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Mark R. Cervarich wrote:
> I have redhat 3.0.3 running linux 2.0.13 on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz
> machine with 128M of RAM and 100M of swap space. I have never,
> never seen the machine use the swap space!!! The memory will
> get so that ~126Meg of RAM will be used up and ~1Meg will be
> free, but even if I open up more apps, they will crash and nothing
> more will be run.
>
> I have set LILO to include the append=128meg statement.
>
> Any ideas what's wrong? Is it a problem with the 2.0.13 kernel?
> Is it a problem with 3.0.3? The machine it is on is a production
> machine that I haven't yet dared upgrade to 4.0 yet.
>
> Thanks for any hints/ideas.
>
> mark
Mark,
What do you get when you run 'free'?
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