[CentOS] What is cached swap?
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Fri Mar 2 17:31:34 UTC 2007
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Isn't cached swap somewhat an oxymoron? Why cache virtual?
> Am I misunderstanding this line from top?
>
> Swap: 524120k total, 80760k used, 443360k free, 73448k cached
>
> Mike
its not cached swap, they just put the cached on the end of the swap
line because it fits.
I'll say this, its not often I see swap used > cached. that machine
definately could use more memory.
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