(2007-01-26 09:22:43) srini:  dude ubuntu doesn't use the 550 MB of swap I have da .. how do I force it to ?
(2007-01-26 09:22:51) srini:  is it because I have 512 AM ram
(2007-01-26 09:22:55) Prashanth Mohan:  yes
(2007-01-26 09:23:02) Prashanth Mohan:  Linux will use swap ONLY if necessary
(2007-01-26 09:23:08) Prashanth Mohan:  using swap will slow down your system
(2007-01-26 09:23:18) Prashanth Mohan:  have you noticed that linux is faster than windows?
(2007-01-26 09:23:22) Prashanth Mohan:  thats cos of this
(2007-01-26 09:23:29) srini:  but won't it result in reducing of no of pages 
(2007-01-26 09:23:41) srini:  because ram can't hold the entire page file anyway na
(2007-01-26 09:23:55) Prashanth Mohan:  linux has something called predictive swapping
(2007-01-26 09:24:00) srini:  oh
(2007-01-26 09:24:01) Prashanth Mohan:  so once you cross say 350 MB of mmeory
(2007-01-26 09:24:10) Prashanth Mohan:  it will start putting stuff in swap 
(2007-01-26 09:24:14) Prashanth Mohan:  but it will also exist in memory
(2007-01-26 09:24:19) srini:  o..
(2007-01-26 09:24:21) Prashanth Mohan:  so swapping out is faster
(2007-01-26 09:24:26) Prashanth Mohan:  since it only has to erase memory
(2007-01-26 09:24:33) Prashanth Mohan:  all this happens only whe computer is idle
(2007-01-26 09:24:37) Prashanth Mohan:  so there is no performance hit