Swap - forcing Swap

[Jonathan S. Romero]

Ah, i see that you mentioned you were aware of the Cache.  

There is no performance benefit to using swap if any reasonable amount
of RAM is available.  

I'd imagine however that should you so desire you can change the
kernel's memory allocation parameters using the /proc interface with
scripts at bootup.  Still not remotely worth the effort.

-Jonathan

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:53 +0200, René L. Reingard wrote:
> hello,
> today i see first time that the 'Systemmonitor' in a panel can be expanded  
> into different branches, like Processor, RAM, Network, ... Ubuntu is  
> allways new!
> now i also see that the RAM (Pentium 3 with 256MB RAM) is allready with  
> the simple desktop used to a high percentage (like 80%) and if greater  
> processes are going on, RAM usage goes up that 100% (Cache then around 40  
> to 60%).
> BUT the Swap Partition is not used at all (in the beginning) and goes to a  
> use of 25% after 15 minutes of heavy work (like Scanning the harddisk).
> 
> how the usage of the Swap can be forced - as the RAM is anyway allways  
> used by around 80%.
> 
> thank you for answering,
> regards,
> René
>