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Hi,

Clayton wrote:

> OK, computer started to swap like mad this evening.... lots of free
> RAM.... but it is still swapping to disk, and not freeing the swap
> space up either.  I will add a comment to the bug report....
> 
> free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       2076040    1182912     893128          0      41784     559888
> -/+ buffers/cache:     581240    1494800
> Swap:      4192956    1472652    2720304

Yes, this looks familiar. Plenty of memory free, but still lots of swap
used. However:

> vmstat 3
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
>  0  0 1472652 891320  42088 561832    0    1    12     7   12   20  9  3 86  2
>  1  0 1472652 890736  42208 562360    0    0     0    41  898 1106  4  2 92  2
>  0  0 1472652 889832  42208 562980    0    0    21     0  804 1186  6  4 89  0
>  2  0 1472652 889460  42368 563304    0    0     0    56  822 1190  5  2 91  2
>  2  0 1472652 889148  42368 563708    0    0    27     0  790 1185  3  1 96  0
>  0  0 1472652 888400  42464 564148    0    0    21  2167  782 1145  7  3 89  1
>  1  0 1472652 887824  42652 564716    0    0    21    67  765 1099  3  2 93  3
>  1  0 1472652 887404  42652 565204    0    0     0     0  773 1117  4  1 94  0

According to this, it's not actively swapping at all! See the "si/so"
columns. So I wonder what's causing the disk activity? In any case, it
looks fishy.

Bye,
        LenZ
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