[CentOS] What is eating up Swap

[John R Pierce]

On 12/10/2013 6:01 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
> recently I noticed, that one of our webservers is using swap space,
> while there is plenty of physical ram available.
>
> free -m
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          8118       2014       6103          0         85        261
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1667       6450
> Swap:         8197         77       8119
>
>
> It's not that much, but why?

during idle time, dirty pages will be written to swap so they can then 
be discarded if needed.   ignore it, it means nothing



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