Kubuntu Feisty using up all my 1.5gb of RAM...

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Thursday 28 June 2007, O. Sinclair wrote:
> I am not an expert but if I remember correct from earlier discussions
> that is how Linux, not KDE or Gnome, deals with RAM. It takes it all so
> to speak and then uses it. A 33 Mb swapfile seems like a fantastic
> overkill since normal recommendation is swap=size of memory or double if
> you want to use suspend/hibernate.

I have 4 GB of RAM, and am barely running anything, but I still have cold 
processes swapped out.  When they redid virtual memory a few kernel versions 
ago, it seems to always insist on using some swap for processes that have 
been idle for some prescribed time.  I'm not on LKML, and not a kernel guru, 
and could be talking right out my butt here, but I went through some kind of 
attempt to eliminate swap some time back (a year or two ago, maybe?) and the 
only way to eliminate swap was to eliminate swap.  If you don't have any swap 
partitions or swapfiles, then, and IIRC only then, will you run swap-free, no 
matter how much RAM you have.

But I could be talking right out my butt.  I'm barely even awake yet, and on 
my way out the door to work.
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D. Michael McIntyre