(2007-01-26 09:22:43) srini: dude ubuntu doesn't use the 550 MB of swap I have da .. how do I force it to ?
(2007-01-26 09:22:51) srini: is it because I have 512 AM ram
(2007-01-26 09:22:55) Prashanth Mohan: yes
(2007-01-26 09:23:02) Prashanth Mohan: Linux will use swap ONLY if necessary
(2007-01-26 09:23:08) Prashanth Mohan: using swap will slow down your system
(2007-01-26 09:23:18) Prashanth Mohan: have you noticed that linux is faster than windows?
(2007-01-26 09:23:22) Prashanth Mohan: thats cos of this
(2007-01-26 09:23:29) srini: but won't it result in reducing of no of pages
(2007-01-26 09:23:41) srini: because ram can't hold the entire page file anyway na
(2007-01-26 09:23:55) Prashanth Mohan: linux has something called predictive swapping
(2007-01-26 09:24:00) srini: oh
(2007-01-26 09:24:01) Prashanth Mohan: so once you cross say 350 MB of mmeory
(2007-01-26 09:24:10) Prashanth Mohan: it will start putting stuff in swap
(2007-01-26 09:24:14) Prashanth Mohan: but it will also exist in memory
(2007-01-26 09:24:19) srini: o..
(2007-01-26 09:24:21) Prashanth Mohan: so swapping out is faster
(2007-01-26 09:24:26) Prashanth Mohan: since it only has to erase memory
(2007-01-26 09:24:33) Prashanth Mohan: all this happens only whe computer is idle
(2007-01-26 09:24:37) Prashanth Mohan: so there is no performance hit