On 10/9/07, RPN01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was under the (likely false) impression that the "used" value given for > swap in the "free" command represented a high water mark. In my experience, > it goes up, but never comes down again.
It's not a high water mark but really the amount of pages out there. But as long as the process does not change the page after swap-in, it may exist both in swap and in main memory. What you often see is that some real estate of the init process for example goes out and it not swapped back in until you shutdown the system. And there are probably more processes that allocate space, initialize it and then never touch it again. It also helps to see the "used swap" together with the swap rate to see what's really happening. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
