[CentOS] Flush memory on a server?

Nicolas Kovacs info at microlinux.fr
Sat Sep 9 13:32:13 UTC 2017


Le 09/09/2017 à 15:14, Robert Nichols a écrit :
> Every system that runs continuously for more that a few days will have
> some pages that were used once when some long-running process started
> and were never referenced again. Those pages will eventually migrate out
> to swap, and that's the best place for them. Right now, I see that this
> system has been up for 16 days and has ~270MB of swap used. I typically
> see ~500MB of swap used when the system has been running a while longer.

So, in other words, there's no need to worry if a little swap is used
when the system's been running non-stop for a couple months?

Niki

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