Re: heavy swapping, not sure why

On 08/30/11 12:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>> >>  Mem:         56481      55486        995          0         15      53298
>>> >>  -/+ buffers/cache:       2172      54309
>>> >>  Swap:         1099         18       1081
>> >  This is totally uninteresting.
> Yeah.  You're going to need a whole lot more than 17MB of bloat before
> it'll be possible to tell which process is at fault, given that the
> expected process sizes are up to 10GB.

indeed, its 100% normal for the linux virtual memory manager to write
'dirty' pages to the swapfile during idle time.


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