Swap problems

[Nils Kassube]

lee wrote:
> This is a copy of what free shows me :             total
> used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       4121252    1340400    2780852          0      93616    
> 630440 -/+ buffers/cache:     616344    3504908
> Swap:      4096532          0    4096532
>
> Now as you can see I have 4gigs of ram and still use a swap partition
> as without it I would soon run out of room with some of the
> applications that I run at one time sometimes I will have 10 or 12
> applications running. It is always better to have than not

I think this doesn't show the necessity of swap space. You have none of 
the swap in use and still there are 3.5G free.

And BTW: Why did you quote ~250kB of text without referring to what you 
quoted?

Nils