On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:16:04 +1100, Peter Hardy uttered
> I'm a little puzzled by this:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 5005084 4816352 188732 0 156644 3165540
> -/+ buffers/cache: 1494168 3510916
> Swap: 1052616 1052616 0
>
> Is this sort of usage normal? Filling a gigabyte of swap space while
> just under 1.5GB of memory is going towards buffers seems odd to me. And
> vmstat reports no usage of this swap space over a 15 minute period.
>
I might be barking up the wrong tree, but do you have one or more
tmpfs'es that are full of files? tmpfs is swap-backed RAM, which neatly
explains the completly full swap, and also the fact that vmstat doesn't
report any swapping at all.
Cheers,
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