Will swap useage auto cleanup?

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Tue Feb 25 18:21:31 PST 2014


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 <lhmwzy at gmail.com> 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.
>
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