David Smith wrote:
The kernel often moves little-used memory (like those daemons that always need to be loaded, or your getty's on tty5 and tty6 that you probably haven't logged into for a month) into swap so as to free up more RAM for disk cache.1. Why is there some swap being used (17Mb)?
2. How can I tell the kernel to free that up so that it's not
> using any swap?
swapoff /dev/${SWAPDEVICE}
swapon /dev/${SWAPDEVICE}
No. It's actually advantageous to have some of that little-used allocated memory in swap so you get more disk cache space.3. Does it really matter?
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