[CentOS] why is this machine using swap space?

Fri Jul 21 15:10:35 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com>

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.  >:-)

> 
> rgds/ldv
> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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