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Re: heavy swapping, not sure why

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On 08/30/11 12:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>  Mem:         56481      55486        995          0         15      53298
>>  -/+ buffers/cache:       2172      54309
>>  Swap:         1099         18       1081
>  This is totally uninteresting.
Yeah.  You're going to need a whole lot more than 17MB of bloat before
it'll be possible to tell which process is at fault, given that the
expected process sizes are up to 10GB.

indeed, its 100% normal for the linux virtual memory manager to write 'dirty' pages to the swapfile during idle time.


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