swap space unused

Hanh Do hdo at globix.com
Tue Sep 14 02:00:10 UTC 2004


I am running Red Hat 7.3 and seeing problems with application not being able to use swap space.

>From the free command, my app is using up almost all of RAM,

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        902928     892664      10264          0      30224     659656
-/+ buffers/cache:     202784     700144
Swap:      1052248          0    1052248

so why is swap not used at all.

Here is the result of swapon -s command:

#swapon -s

Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/hda2                       partition       1052248 0       -2

Here is swap entry in /etc/fstab file

/dev/hda2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

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Any one have seen this problem.

Thanks.

HD







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