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 -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast