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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:31:01PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:27:21PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > I'd like to know why my (server) machine uses swap.
> > I checked 'top' and 'vmstat' but didn't find any information related to
> > content.
>=20
> I think you are asking yourself the wrong question. Applications do not u=
se
> swap, the system uses swap when a lot of memory is allocated by applicati=
ons.

Not only then - or rather, not only by applications.=20

Very-idle processes can get paged out in favour of using the memory
for disk cache, too.  This is probably what's happening if you
wouldn't otherwise have expected anything to swap.

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Dan.
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