linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Need more swap

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Need more swap

Hi

The increase of swap may take a longer time and instead of that go to add one more swap partion to it.

It reflects the same thing as increase of SWAP.

Regards,
Sriharsha Kalluru.

--- On Thu, 24/9/09, Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Need more swap
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Received: Thursday, 24 September, 2009, 4:29 PM

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J wrote:

> What makes you think you need more swap? What are teh specs on the
> system? What kind of processor, and how much RAM. And again, WHY do
> you need more swap?

Yep. with all the processes listed below running, I have plenty of
available RAM:

[wittig@localhost Desktop]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1025364 502688 522676 0 20260 178952
- -/+ buffers/cache: 303476 721888
Swap: 2040212 0 2040212
[wittig@localhost Desktop]$

[wittig@localhost Desktop]$ ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:05 init
2 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
3 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
4 ? 00:00:00 keventd
5 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
6 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
9 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
7 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
8 ? 00:00:00 kscand
10 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
11 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
15 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
70 ? 00:00:00 khubd
1636 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
1991 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
2048 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
2052 ? 00:00:00 klogd
2062 ? 00:00:00 irqbalance
2079 ? 00:00:00 portmap
2098 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
2184 ? 00:00:01 cupsd
2211 ? 00:00:00 sshd
2225 ? 00:00:00 xinetd
2238 ? 00:00:00 ntpd
2266 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
2275 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
2285 ? 00:00:00 gpm
2295 ? 00:00:00 cannaserver
2306 ? 00:00:00 crond
2329 ? 00:00:01 xfs
2338 ? 00:00:00 smbd
2342 ? 00:00:00 smbd
2343 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
2352 ? 00:00:00 atd
2380 ? 00:00:00 rhnsd
2394 ? 00:00:00 mdadm
2401 ? 00:00:00 login
2402 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
2403 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
2404 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
2405 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
2406 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
2419 tty1 00:00:00 bash
2476 tty1 00:00:00 startx
2487 tty1 00:00:00 xinit
2488 ? 00:03:51 X
2492 tty1 00:00:00 startkde
2504 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
2546 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2549 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2552 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2555 ? 00:00:21 kdeinit
2575 ? 00:00:02 artsd
2577 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2578 tty1 00:00:00 kwrapper
2580 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2581 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
2583 ? 00:00:21 kdeinit
2585 ? 00:00:10 kdeinit
2586 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2588 ? 00:00:33 autorun
2595 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2596 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
2598 ? 00:00:26 kpat
2601 ? 00:00:00 kalarmd
2602 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
2637 ? 00:00:41 opera
2648 ? 00:00:00 firefox
2651 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla. sh
2656 ? 00:11:18 firefox-bin
2661 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
2691 ? 00:00:00 thunderbird
2694 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla. sh
2699 ? 00:03:03 thunderbird- bin
2811 pts/1 00:00:00 ps
[wittig@localhost Desktop]$

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