Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question Am I having too much swap space if my server is a 8GB physical ram and … Read more
It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 9 years ago. Thats pretty much the quesiton: how can I … Read more
occasionally my server hits 100% usage on virtual memory and I don’t know if that is something alarming or not? ( this happends gradualy to fill to that percent over 1-2 weeks from clean swap) I usually resolve this issue like this: swapoff -a && swapon -a do you suggest any other method of resolving … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question Does having swap space makes sense if I have a 32 bit OS (Linux) and 4 GB RAM already? As it would have … Read more
As all know in Linux machines we have RAM memory and swap memory. My first question is: What the reason that the swap memory is increasing – because high level of RAM usage or something else? Second – is it possible to verify how much memory a process holds? Example from top command: Is it … Read more
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 2 years ago. Improve this question Referring to Moving a process to and from swap and other answers which talk about moving … Read more
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question cpu 1.3% mem 476/490MB swap 347/511mb tasks: 43, 29 thr; 1 running load average: 0.10 … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I’m using a VPS for some computationally heavy tasks but not to host a publicly-facing website. The author of the application I’m using … Read more
It looks like joke: swapfile on “ramdysk” in 64bits system? I look into file: /proc/meminfo and made some investigation. Look for line: SwapCached: nnnnn kB . One is what I don’t understand. What for linux kernel caches swap? What for caching this? Isn’t better idea leaving page as active? Another, what is difference between swapping … Read more
I want to deploy Linux on user computers in a way state is never preserved between boots (except state saved explicitly by users on external removable devices). System image will be stored on a read-only removable media and possibly network. All my target computers have SSDs installed. It will be a waste to do not … Read more
