Swap space usage

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:24:44 +0530, Shrikant
<shrikant.navelkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using FC3 on IBM laptop R32 with 256 MB RAM.
> 
> While observing the system load and memory through system monitor I
> observed that most of the time the memory usage is more than 90 %
> (sometimes 99 %), whereas swap space usage is less than 30 %. I have few
> questions :
> 
> 1.  Is it a normal behavior ?

yes. Linux uses a agressive cache mechanism

> 2.  Do I need to change my swap settings to improve the performance?

No

Regards,
Rahul Sundaram