Re: [LUG] Swap not swap

[Martin Gautier <martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/11/13 13:05, Philip Hudson wrote:
> Performance has suddenly gone to hell on a x86_64 machine running 
> debian testing. I noticed in htop that nothing was ever showing in 
> swap, so I checked with 'swapon -s', expecting to find that swap was 
> off for some reason, but instead got this:
>
> Filename                 Type            Size    Used Priority
> /dev/sda5                partition       4805628 0       -1
>
> So the correct partition is allocated as swap as per /etc/fstab, but 
> that "Used" figure of zero is bugging me. The machine has 2GB RAM, 
> which is usually 90%+ allocated according to htop.
>
> Anyone recognize this?
>
> --
> Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz
> @UWascalWabbit                 PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63
My under-used VMWare server instance matches your results -> 0 Used.

My over-used main server with 2GB RAM has a non-zero "Used" value which 
matches up with top results. - I really should add more RAM to it...

Both are latest Ubuntu LTS servers.

Martin

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