10 Dec
2013
10 Dec
'13
4:18 p.m.
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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