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Re: Examining Swap



Tony Godshall wrote:
> According to Thomas,
> 
>>Hello there.
>>
>>
>>My debian server uses max 50% of its 1 GB ram while im looking at it, 
>>also under stress conditions. Still, if it is running for a few days, 
>>there are about 100 MB swapspace used.
>>
>>I dont know what is written into the swapfile.
>>Now i ask myself, how i can find out whats inside of the swapfile, and 
>>most important, why.
>>
>>Is there a way to examine that?
>>Is there a way to move the contents of the swapfile back into the (free) 
>>mem manually?
> 
> 
> Sounds to me you have a memory leak.

What is this diagnosis based on?  Do you know how the kernel manages memory?



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