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  1. #1

    Why is this swapping?

    Why is this swapping with 3GB+ free RAM?

    RAM: 636MB / 3940MB
    SWAP: 405MB / 4094MB

    It seems to be mainly MySQL in swap.


    Thanks.

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    There could have been a surge of traffic / queries that caused MySQL to use more RAM then what you had available thus causing it to use swap space?
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  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick View Post
    There could have been a surge of traffic / queries that caused MySQL to use more RAM then what you had available thus causing it to use swap space?
    After flushing the swap, the usage returns after a while, with no traffic surge.

  4. #4
    Does it really matter? If performance is perfect don't worry about it. You are nit-picking in reality. No one can tell you why it's swapping. Probably just some misc OS stuff.

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    It happens on linux 2.6. If you google up 'swappiness' you'll get a better answer.

    http://www.bigdbahead.com/?p=101

    Unless your server is pure MySQL, I'd leave it as it is.

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    A few of mine do the same, it's strange...
    Not high usage though, I think 10MB max on a master node.

  7. #7
    Code:
    swapoff -a
    Not the perfect solution, but at least it's not unnecessarily using swap any more.

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