Re: [cobalt-users] Question for everyone running 550 OS on XTR or even 550

["Chris L" <clathem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You have never used your swap! This is what I was afraid of seeing. I
> am not sure I'm reading this right but you are using very little
> memory. While it says your using 857220 you really are only using
> 187816 bytes at the time of the display.As the man page says "free
> subtracts/adds buffer memory from/to the used/free memory reports
> (respectively!)." The 857220 is like a highwater mark, showing how
> much memory you have used. (There are processes that will reclaim it
> has needed and then remove - but only when something else needs the
> memory.) You have never used swap since you booted.(It is possible
> that you used it and some process reclaimed it, but I believe it has
> never been activated.) So I still have no idea if anyone has
> successfully paged memory in/out from their swap space running the 550
> OS with the 2.4.19C10 kernel on an XTR.

Just out of curiosity, how much RAM do you have? Unless you have very little
RAM or one hell of a load on the server, You really shouldn't see a lot of
swap being used, if any.

-Chris