Okay, why does `swapoff` exist on Linux? It's completely useless as far as I can tell. It's been running for 24h to swap in like 1.5GB of used swap or so, on a largely idle server with >32GB free RAM. How can it be *this* hilariously inefficient?
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What's your sys.vm.swappiness setting?
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60. I just changed it to 0, not helping.
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Is the 32GB actually free, or is it cached?
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Free.
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memory fragmentation ?
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This is linus's way of saying "you should have just disabled swap & rebooted"
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First guess-- something has managed to map memory and lock it into swap? Crazy thought, but...
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is flushing cached writes to disk considered a page-out?
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What’s still resident in swap? This is long past the point I consider killing pids...
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It really sounds like it’s refilling swap at just about the same speed that it’s draining swap. What is swappiness set to? I’d have to look up the details to interpret.
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