Re: Strange swap growth/exhaustion

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Alvaro R wrote:

> Anyway, I have a 1gig swap partition, and it got filled up quickly,
> while I only run plain Apache2 (worker) to serve the images (no PHP or
> other dynamic content). and there's nothing that seem to be using this
> swap area, but it is 100% anyway, I after while created a swapfile,
> also 1gig, and it also became 100% full, usage growth rate is about
> 400 megs/hour.
I doubt that it is xfs filling your swap; perhaps top can show you who's using 
a lot of memory?
-Eric