07-29-2012
Probably a high swappiness, if this is Linux, read from /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. Low value will favor dropping pages in cache, high value will write more to swap. Since you had lots of stale commands, the kernel figured they did not need to be in active memory.. But since you have so much free, I wonder why it swapped at all?
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SYSINFO(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SYSINFO(2)
NAME
sysinfo - return system information
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/sysinfo.h>
int sysinfo(struct sysinfo *info);
DESCRIPTION
sysinfo() returns certain statistics on memory and swap usage, as well as the load average.
Until Linux 2.3.16, sysinfo() returned information in the following structure:
struct sysinfo {
long uptime; /* Seconds since boot */
unsigned long loads[3]; /* 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages */
unsigned long totalram; /* Total usable main memory size */
unsigned long freeram; /* Available memory size */
unsigned long sharedram; /* Amount of shared memory */
unsigned long bufferram; /* Memory used by buffers */
unsigned long totalswap; /* Total swap space size */
unsigned long freeswap; /* Swap space still available */
unsigned short procs; /* Number of current processes */
char _f[22]; /* Pads structure to 64 bytes */
};
In the above structure, the sizes of the memory and swap fields are given in bytes.
Since Linux 2.3.23 (i386) and Linux 2.3.48 (all architectures) the structure is:
struct sysinfo {
long uptime; /* Seconds since boot */
unsigned long loads[3]; /* 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages */
unsigned long totalram; /* Total usable main memory size */
unsigned long freeram; /* Available memory size */
unsigned long sharedram; /* Amount of shared memory */
unsigned long bufferram; /* Memory used by buffers */
unsigned long totalswap; /* Total swap space size */
unsigned long freeswap; /* Swap space still available */
unsigned short procs; /* Number of current processes */
unsigned long totalhigh; /* Total high memory size */
unsigned long freehigh; /* Available high memory size */
unsigned int mem_unit; /* Memory unit size in bytes */
char _f[20-2*sizeof(long)-sizeof(int)];
/* Padding to 64 bytes */
};
In the above structure, sizes of the memory and swap fields are given as multiples of mem_unit bytes.
RETURN VALUE
On success, sysinfo() returns zero. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the cause of the error.
ERRORS
EFAULT info is not a valid address.
VERSIONS
sysinfo() first appeared in Linux 0.98.pl6.
CONFORMING TO
This function is Linux-specific, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.
NOTES
All of the information provided by this system call is also available via /proc/meminfo and /proc/loadavg.
SEE ALSO
proc(5)
COLOPHON
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latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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