50 percent swap used, but "ps auxww" output shows no processes swapped out

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Sat Feb 3 22:02:19 UTC 2018


04.02.2018 4:18, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> (I'm not sure "W" status even means swap; I thought whole-process swapping
> wasn't even supported any more.)

Kernel may decide to swap out entire processes if vm.swap_enabled=1 (default)
and its free page pool heavily stressed or system was configured by administrator
to swap out idle processes proactively using vm.swap_idle_enabled=1 (not default).



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