Re: [TCLUG:2051] Swap space

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

do this, and send the output to the mailing list..
cat /proc/meminfo


Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Mark wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have a Redhat5.1 installation with 64M of RAM and 128M swap space.
> When we look at the memory usage using top or free the swap space usage always
> shows up to be 0.
> 
> On doing a swapon -s it complains of not finding the /proc/swap file for
> reporting.
> 
> The system works fine as long as a program doesnot try and use up all the memory
> like with netscape and StarOffice.  When all the memory is used up the CPU time
> maxes out on netscape and the swap space still remains unused making some of the
> processes crawl.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas on what could be the problem.
> 
> Thanks
> Mark, Sandipan
> 
> 
> 
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