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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:20:05PM +0100, Piotr Gnyp wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > Of course, what you posted doesn't indicate this.  Swap is used by
> > processes, so killing the process that is actually using the swap will
> > cause it to be reclaimed.  If you think something else is going on,
> > please provide the appropriate details so we can analyse the problem.
> 
> so, beside top and swapinfo - how can i check it?
> 
> My point is: why system uses swap if it has free memory.

To make sure that there is free memory available when programs need it.



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