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Can low cache memory cause high swap utilization?


On my linux machine, memory configuration is - =-=-= -bash-3.2$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 23865 9500 14364 0 176 5376 -/+ buffers/cache: 3948 19917 Swap: 2047 279 1767 =-=-= i am facing an issue of high swap utilization on this machine. Is low cashed memory (other machines have 15200) responsible for high swap utilization here?

In High Performance - Asked by ayush taneja - One year ago
Tags:  cache swap
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  • SWAP is controlld by a line in /etc/fstab, just make a comment (#) starting the line and restart ur Linux. Observer if there is any change. Also u can use swapon / swapoff command. See
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    Answered by Rechil Colin
    One year ago     		0 0
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