[CentOS] why is this machine using swap space?
Larry Vaden
vaden at texoma.net
Fri Jul 21 15:52:09 UTC 2006
On 7/21/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:05 -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
> > Mem: 2075040k total, 1331452k used, 743588k free, 50896k buffers
> > Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1191532k cached
> >
> > SunFire X2100 running Centos 4.3.
> >
> > Linux maytag1.texoma.net 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT
> > 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> To answer your question: because it is there! ;-) And it can!
>
> Seriously, a recent thread involving this is in the archives. Short ans:
> "swappiness" parameter can be used to reduce it and there is a "bug"
> that disappears with U4 (IIRC). Also, some config settings can reduce
> it.
>
> Now we have two threads on it. >:-)
<humor>
So, how many threads before it can go in the faq?
</humor>
Seriously, did I miss it or is Centos at centos.org not covered by Google groups?
If not covered by Google groups, why (or more positively, can we change that)?
rgds/ldv
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