MailScanner is responsible for SWAP usage!

Jon Radel jon at radel.com
Mon May 22 01:36:44 IST 2006


Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Richard Lynch wrote on Sun, 21 May 2006 16:58:06 -0400:
> 
>> A 650KB swap file is nothing.
> 
> I'm sure he means 650 MB.
> 
> Kai
> 

Why?  Linux boxes are perfectly capable of gathering little bits of
cruft in swap.  I've got a [much wimpier than those under discussion]
Linux box here that in the last 203 days has somehow gathered 163KB in
swap that just sits there despite there being 5MB physical RAM free (and
considerably more physical RAM free if you subtract the buffers and cache).

--Jon Radel


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