Let’s look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free. The free command will tell you about used and unused memory and about swap space. Physical ...

recently my linux file server has had a large swap usage 987 mb slowing the system. <BR>swapoff -a /dev/hda3 was used <BR>swapon -a /dev/hda3 was issued about 20 mins ...