reserved swap

From: <K.McManus_at_greenwich.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:19:43 +0100 (BST)

Howdy all,

An easy one this time I hope...

I am installing a few packages on three new machines but one
keeps saying ...

        swap space below 10 percent free

Which causes setld to become upset. monitor reports 40%
free swap but I am not entirely clear as to why any swap
should be reserved anyway when the machines are doing nothing
other than running a desktop. These machines all have 128M
ram and 198M swap, surely that is enough for any setld. So..

What is reserving the swap??
Why does setld think that there is less free swap than monitor??
Why does the reserved and free reported by monitor not total 100%?

Muchos Gracias in anticipation..

k.mcmanus_at_gre.ac.uk - http://www.gre.ac.uk/~k.mcmanus
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Received on Tue Jul 29 1997 - 12:38:18 NZST

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