swap space utilization test . . . how ?

[jenaniston]

Is there any decent way to see if the swap area - or how much of the swap area -
is actually being used, especially at bootup . . .

. . . maybe something like the "benchmark" tests - but just for swap ??

I am testing U9.04 as well as Lubuntu 10.10 (and trying Xubuntu 10.10 and 11.04alpha2 next)
running on an old and very small RAM (128MB) Gateway tower.

I've been making swap partitions using mkswap -
which has made running U9.04 even possible - no more frozen screens -
but I now wonder if Lubuntu needs to be "told" to use the swap area?? (mstab ??)

[cipherboy_loc]

Try:

free -m

Run it at different times to see what happens. You could create an init script to monitor it and save the output of the command to a log file every 5 seconds or so.








Cipherboy