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have had my suse 9.3 box running for three weeks now,since a reinstallation forced me to start again. just checked it & noticed a lot of hard drive activity, checked ...
  1. 12-02-2005 #1
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    WOOHOO, SUSE USED SWAP!!!

    have had my suse 9.3 box running for three weeks now,since a reinstallation forced me to start again. just checked it & noticed a lot of hard drive activity, checked & found it has used a whole 47mb swap, shock!! horror!!

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    Thats not a good thing, use it as an excuse to GET MORE RAM!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by onlinebacon
    Thats not a good thing, use it as an excuse to GET MORE RAM!!!
    Hey, even a 1GB server machine uses swap space, even when there is still RAM free, so I don't think it would count.
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    gonna get MORE RAM!!! , 1gb just ticking over with seti,einstein & lhc@home
    main box used for server & number crunching

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    I gots me 512mb ram and 1006mb swap and the only time i've noticed any swap being used is after a suspend-to-disk. Does that mean using suspend to disk frees up more ram?
    No really...Does it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stefann
    Quote Originally Posted by onlinebacon
    Thats not a good thing, use it as an excuse to GET MORE RAM!!!
    Hey, even a 1GB server machine uses swap space, even when there is still RAM free, so I don't think it would count.
    doesn't if you comment swap out of fstab or if you swapoff
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    with 1 gig of ram do you need swap at all
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    definitely, as my system runs 24/7

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    That doesnt matter, it matters what apps you are running, what services, and what DE you are using... not how long you are using it for. I had a 256mb RAM 900mhz machine on for four days, and it didnt swap once. Running Flux, most services I had on and running no apps.
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