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large footprint for swapon (file)

Submitted by Anonymous
on July 2, 2007 - 12:33pm

Hi,

just noticed something weird on my 2.6-x RHAS 4. When you add a swap (file) to a running system, it leaves a large footprint the size of the new swapfile in memory (as cached). Is this normal? Once it is rebooted, everything shows up fine.

shm

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new file?

strcmp
on
July 2, 2007 - 3:56pm

did you create and populate a new file for that? if you just create a big file, it will remain cached, even if you don't use it as a swap file.

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