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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Swap memory usage keeps increasing. Post 302998039 by Peasant on Wednesday 24th of May 2017 12:03:23 PM
Old 05-24-2017
From what you have posted, during the time you executed those commands there was no swapping.
But, your system did swap some period of time, hence the metrics.

Considering the cached column in your output, your system has cached 29 GB of data in memory.

For your output i can see you are running databases, is this Oracle ASM or filesystems in question ?

If you are running Oracle ASM, i would recommend tuning the kernel file system caching parameters and some others if required.

Here is a nice link :
https://access.redhat.com/sites/defa...hel6_1.2_1.pdf

The swappiness parameters is most important to notice in the document and apply to your environment.

If filesystems are in question, it would be required to pinpoint the specific time of memory starvation using metrics from cron and reports from users.
The kernel tuning if you are using filesystems should be done differently, since your database / system benefits greatly from memory for read io.
Read doesn't hit disks so often, so they have more time to service write request and repopulating cache, making system faster.
 

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virtual-filesystems(7)					 Miscellaneous Information Manual				    virtual-filesystems(7)

NAME
virtual-filesystems - event signalling that virtual filesystems have been mounted SYNOPSIS
virtual-filesystems [ENV]... DESCRIPTION
The virtual-filesystems event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all virtual filesystems listed in fstab(5). mountall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with other activity. This event is typically used by services that must be started in order to mount other filesystems. When this event occurs, common filesys- tems such as /usr may not be mounted. For most normal services the filesystem(7) event is sufficient. EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to be running once virtual filesystems are mounted might use: start on virtual-filesystems SEE ALSO
mounting(7) mounted(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7) mountall 2009-12-21 virtual-filesystems(7)
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