On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:44:26AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I had a Symptom like this a few years ago, which was tracked to something > called "zram", which tries to use "excess RAM" as Swap Space.
thanks for your input! We do not use zram. (I assume that would also show up in `lsmod`?) /proc/swap shows only one "normal" swap partition (on a LVM logical volume in this case): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ root@rad-wgv-srv01:~# cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/dm-3 partition 2097148 70876 -1 root@rad-wgv-srv01:~# fgrep swap /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/vg0-lv_swap none swap sw 0 0 root@rad-wgv-srv01:~# ls -l /dev/mapper/vg0-lv_swap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mär 29 08:33 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv_swap -> ../dm-3 root@rad-wgv-srv01:~# ls -l /dev/dm-3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 3 Mär 29 08:33 /dev/dm-3 root@rad-wgv-srv01:~# lvs /dev/mapper/vg0-lv_swap LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert lv_swap vg0 -wi-ao---- 2,00g root@rad-wgv-srv01:~# lsmod | fgrep z Module Size Used by root@rad-wgv-srv01:~# ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Martin Schwarz * Karlsruhe, Germany * http://kuroi.de/