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Huulivoide

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From: Finaland->Lapland->Kemi

Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 19

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aggressive swap

My swap has started to fill very aggressively, ass soon it is enabled system start to move apps in to it despite that i have 1.5gb of free ram. I have set swappines to 0 but it doesn't help.

soloport

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Registered: 2005-03-01

Posts: 442

Re: aggressive swap

More things to try:
* vfs_cache_pressure=1000
* monitor /tmp (looking for large files)
* any DB starting up?? (turn swap off; let DB settle; turn swap on -- or just let it be)