On Monday 05 June 2006 2:18 pm, Sam Drinkard wrote: > I know this is more of a general unix question, but the thread about > the last kernel update, and memory usage got me to looking and > thinking. Given a system with 2 Gb of memory, and at peak usage, top > reports considerably less than the 2 gig amount in use, as well as > system monitoring that never shows all available memory used, what > would happen if you just turned swap off, and let memory handle things? > This machine here, has now crept up to using just under 400mb of swap, > yet I've never seen total memory usage above about 1.4gb. I'm a bit > leary of just "swapoff" while the machine is running the weather model, > as I'd hate to crash things, but I'm just wondering if turning off swap > (assuming the system is actually using the disks) would break things or > in the best case, speed things up. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188141