On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:

When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks
of memory to swap.  It will not free the swap space until the process
owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back into RAM), so at
some point the system paged out 30MB of memory, some processes exited
and freed up 20MB, and you probably have some long-lived processes that
account for that remaining 10MB.

Makes sense.
Any way to find out which process is using the swap?
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