Why are these using swap when I have plenty of free ram?

Chris chris.pollock1948 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 22:52:55 UTC 2019


On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 22:19 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 21:44, Chris <chris.pollock1948 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > The below processes are using swap for some reason:
> 
> If you have a transient situation with a shortage of RAM then little
> used stuff will be moved out to swap. When the transient situation is
> over there may be plenty of RAM available but if the stuff in swap is
> not used again then it will be left there.  There is no reason to go
> to the effort of moving it back.
> 
> Colin
> 
Thanks Colin and Robert for the explanations. Seems to have just
started with the current kernel version. No biggie then.

Thanks again
Chris

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Chris
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