[CentOS] Re: why is this machine using swap space?
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Fri Jul 21 17:25:02 UTC 2006
Larry Vaden spake the following on 7/21/2006 10:10 AM:
> On 7/21/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>
> wrote:
>> Larry Vaden spake the following on 7/21/2006 8:05 AM:
>> > 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
>> >
>> > rgds/ldv
>> 144k of used swap is minimal. As ling as pages aren't actively
>> swapping in and
>> out, it is no big deal.
>
> OK, I agree that where there is smoke there is not always fire, but I
> still prefer a smoke-free environment.
>
> rgds/ldv
free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4044784 3895936 148848 0 52400 2152500
-/+ buffers/cache: 1691036 2353748
Swap: 2031608 160 2031448
You see that mine seems to have the same "problem". Although since this
machine has been up for a while, it has a lot of buffers filled.
But when I run vmstat;
vmstat -n 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 0 160 63160 45836 2287448 0 0 104 121 3 16 20 3 75 2
2 0 160 61936 45840 2288668 0 0 256 30 1217 12652 27 4 69 0
1 0 160 60192 45868 2290544 0 0 366 26 1249 12876 27 4 68 1
1 0 160 58976 45872 2291764 0 0 256 18 1200 12345 27 4 69 0
2 0 160 57744 45876 2293120 0 0 256 42 1223 13458 27 4 68 0
1 0 160 56472 45912 2294648 0 0 310 102 1232 12667 26 4 70 1
1 0 160 55280 45928 2295584 0 0 206 272 1208 12431 27 3 70 0
1 0 160 54144 45948 2296856 0 0 258 16 1186 12633 27 3 69 0
1 0 160 52648 45956 2298412 0 0 307 55 1222 13441 27 4 69 0
No swapin or swapout
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