Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:28:42 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | RE: Exaggerated swap usage |
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Randal, Phil wrote:
> Mem: 1031036K av, 1021140K used, 9896K free, 0K shrd, 80560K buff > Swap: 1052216K av, 5064K used, 1047152K free 627808K cached
> Swapping in these circumstances shows a pathological reluctance to shed > cached pages.
You've got 1 GB of RAM and 5 MB of pages in swap. That's an almost negligable quantity.
Also, if vmstat doesn't show any swapins, the data is just sitting there in swap without ever being used ... quite possible since many distros start up daemons that people don't really use.
regards,
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