Swap partition doesn't work

[El Potro]

System monitor shows no change when I copy several big (500mb) files through the home net (there is no dvd drive on this netbook), or if I copy all the contents from an entire 1 gb pendrive.

Is there another way? Or perhaps a more professional way to do it? There is memtest to test the ram, is there an automatized program to check the swap?

Thanks

[plucky]

You need to load programs into memory and run them before you get anywhere close to 2GB.

I had to open two operating systems in virtualbox before it got to 2GB as each OS was allocated 1Gb


Good luck

[jerrrys]

in terminal

cat /proc/swaps

[El Potro]

All the virtual machine thing will have to wait, it will take me a long time to set it up.

Meanwhile I typed cat /proc/swaps and this is what I got:

Filename                Type        Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda6                               partition    2096444    0    -1

[jerrrys]

The output of that command is offset, but looks to me you have 2G of active swap. Still getting that boot message?

[El Potro]

How can you tell I'm using two megabytes? I think that the number that starts with 2 is the size, and below used it says 0.

No, I don't get the boot message anymore. But still I never saw the swap being used -not even one byte-. That's what catches my attention. If I saw only one byte being used I'll consider this done. But as far as it is not being used at all, I think it is not working.

For example on my desktop computer I see the swap being used almost always, at least a bit, and the hardware specs are higher.

[jerrrys]

A typo, 2G meant to say

host@host:~$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda5 partition 1047548 11980 -1

I have 1G (1047548 of swap

and like plucky said, load it up for the ultimate test

[El Potro]

is there an alternative to installing a virtual machine? something cleaner, faster, nicer?

[BC59]

A virtual machine is consuming a lot of resources. I tried it once in a netbook but it was very-very slow. These applications are for big machines.

[jerrrys]

stressapptest

I have not used this app so can't tell you its condition.