[H-GEN] Is swap space working?

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Many thanks for your advice on this. Here are the results.

> > I'm having low memory problems and am using kpm to monitor memory use (see
> > below for machine configuration). The indicator for swap space (presumably the
> > HDD swap partition) always shows zero (0k used), and I'm wondering why.

> Try using the command 
>    $ free  
OUTPUT:
   Total: 34232   Used: 19396   Free: 14836

>   $ free -m
OUTPUT:
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Swap:          33         18         14

> Also, you could use
>    # cat /proc/swaps
OUTPUT:
Filename			Type		Size	Used	Priority
/dev/hda5                       partition	34232	19396	-1

> >   1. Swap is always empty when kpm is in use?
> >   2. It's not monitoring the swap partition, but something else?
> 
> kpm is the KDE process mangler?  It's possible, but unlikely.

Yes, kpm is the KDE Process Manager, but it still shows 0K used when the above
commands give the results specified; i.e. it apparently can't be trusted.

Much appreciated,
Carl Adams.

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