e...@math.uni-bonn.de (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=) writes:
>Sorry, I was confused by sysstat vm not showing any paging acivity.
>Looks like I have some daemons with memory leaks.
>I restarted them, but swap usage dropped to 1%, not zero.
Pages are only removed from swap when they are freed or accessed.
You can remove a swap area to force the pages back into memory and make
sure that enough memory is free before doing that.
% swapctl -l
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Priority
/dev/dk4 1048576 86704 961872 8% 0
hoppa% sudo swapctl -U
Password:
swapctl: removing /dev/dk4 as swap device
% sudo swapctl -A
swapctl: setting dump device to /dev/dk4
swapctl: adding /dev/dk4 as swap device at priority 0
% swapctl -l
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Priority
/dev/dk4 1048576 0 1048576 0% 0
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