Ubuntu 17.04 - why is my swap file not being used?

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I think I ran the swapon command.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '17 at 09:56

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From the System Monitor image you attached, the RAM usage is 89%.

You aren't using the entire RAM of your machine - hence there is no need to use swap file on disk.

Also, it is clear that you have 7.6GB of swap file, 2MB of the file is in use (which is about 0.0001% of total swap file)

answered Sep 05 '17 at 09:56

Yaron

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If i use entire ram , swap file will run? – Greed Ruler Sep 05 '17 at 10:03
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Yes - The purpose of swap file is extend your RAM with a file on disk (which will be 1000 slower than the RAM) – Yaron Sep 05 '17 at 10:15

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