The only program I run is buildworld and buildkerenl,nothing else. When buildworld and buildkerenl finished,the swap won't be released even several days have passed.
2014-02-26 10:21 GMT+08:00 Justin Sherrill <[email protected]>: > If swap usage is growing, some program is running that is eating up more > memory than you have physically available. It won't be reclaimed by the > operating system unless the program using that memory releases it. The > question is, what program are you running that is so memory-hungry? > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:58 PM, lhmwzy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just have a question >> When swap space is used more and more, will the system automatically free >> up the used the swap space as time go on? >> If yes,when and how. >> >> top show as fllowing: >> >> Memory: 645M Active, 768M Inact, 378M Wired, 13M Cache, 211M Buf, 153M >> Free >> Swap: 4096M Total, 42M Used, 4054M Free, 1% Inuse >> >> the swap used space is growing larger and larger. >> Server days go on and could not be freed up. >> >> sorry for my pool english,I hope you can understand what I have said. >> > >
