Re: swapctl -l

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=) writes:

>Sorry, I was confused by sysstat vm not showing any paging acivity.
>Looks like I have some daemons with memory leaks.
>I restarted them, but swap usage dropped to 1%, not zero.

Pages are only removed from swap when they are freed or accessed.

You can remove a swap area to force the pages back into memory and make
sure that enough memory is free before doing that.

% swapctl -l
Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
/dev/dk4      1048576    86704   961872     8%    0
hoppa% sudo swapctl -U
Password: 
swapctl: removing /dev/dk4 as swap device
% sudo swapctl -A
swapctl: setting dump device to /dev/dk4
swapctl: adding /dev/dk4 as swap device at priority 0
% swapctl -l
Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
/dev/dk4      1048576        0  1048576     0%    0


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