[CentOS] What is eating up Swap - Thanks to all feedback

Wed Dec 11 13:10:12 UTC 2013

Am 10.12.13 17:18, schrieb 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

Hi thanks to all feedbacks, I'f found that the httpd is eating up swap;
currently about 500MB while 4GB RAM are still free.

I'll look into that.

	Regard . Götz
-- 
Götz Reinicke
IT-Koordinator

Tel. +49 7141 969 82 420
E-Mail goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Akademiehof 10
71638 Ludwigsburg
www.filmakademie.de

Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016

Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Jürgen Walter MdL
Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Wissenschaft,
Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt