Why would a server show such a high amount in cached when it is needing
to swap?
This one has 442M cached and a whole Gig of swap used. It is swapping
at the moment too:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 1956 1938 18 0 46
442
-/+ buffers/cache: 1449 507
Swap: 3662 1028 2633
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy
id wa
0 0 1053644 24168 45624 450116 3 4 17 20 21 32 4
3 92 1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> uname -a
Linux ceztd67134 2.6.5-7.286-s390x #1 SMP Thu May 31 10:12:58 UTC 2007
s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux
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