[CentOS] What is eating up Swap
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Tue Dec 10 16:18:09 UTC 2013
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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john r pierce 37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast
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