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I have 1.5GB ram...after leaving my computer on for 17 hours with htop running in a terminal I see that it's using roughly 450MB ram and 17MB swap (I have ...
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How exactly does swap work?
I have 1.5GB ram...after leaving my computer on for 17 hours with htop running in a terminal I see that it's using roughly 450MB ram and 17MB swap (I have about 517MB swap)...I thought swap is only used when you run out of ram...
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check this link.
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Thanks devils_casper
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Hi.
A survey article is at Virtual memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... cheers, drlWelcome - get the most out of the forum by reading forum basics and guidelines: click here.
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Thank you both, after reading it satisfied my own theory too
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