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

[Chris]

On Sat, 2019-11-09 at 01:11 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:19:15PM +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.
> 
> In a similar way, it might even be not because of any particular
> memory
> pressure, but because using RAM to cache things read from disk was
> more
> valuable than keeping the memory of rarely-used processes in RAM.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [
> cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
> 
Thanks Colin however one process
syslog   rsyslogd                      404
to me doesn't seem like a rarely used process. I'm sure there may be
others however that just stands out to me.

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Chris
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