On Sat, 12 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Why do I not see this behavior with a heavy swap throughput test
> load? It seems decidedly odd to me that swapspace should remain
> allocated on other folks lightly loaded boxen given that my heavily
> loaded box does release swapspace quite regularly. What am I
> missing?
Are you using a database or something other which mostly uses shared
mem/tmpfs? This does reclaim swap space on swap in.
Greetings
Christoph
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