Clearing SWAP
Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top:
15055 andy 20 0 34520 14m 4896 R 98 1.5 0:01.60 kbuildsycoca
14950 andy 20 0 171m 88m 27m S 55 9.0 15:52.20 iceape-bin
3890 root 20 0 123m 68m 8184 S 4 7.0 41:54.30 Xorg
161 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 2 0.0 0:32.91 kswapd0
4881 andy 20 0 19776 5672 4460 S 2 0.6 11:38.49 xfce4-systemloa
1 root 20 0 2032 548 520 S 0 0.1 0:05.08 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.44 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:34.99 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.52 migration/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:04.38 ksoftirqd/1
8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:11.90 events/0
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:20.40 events/1
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
43 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:09.02 kblockd/0
44 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:19.00 kblockd/1
47 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
48 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
121 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
162 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
163 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
608 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
610 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
787 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
788 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:18.06 usb-storage
790 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
791 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.08 usb-storage
816 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
and of free:
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1003576 986260 17316 0 9868 139320
-/+ buffers/cache: 837072 166504
Swap: 2931852 1928848 1003004
How can I clear out SWAP so that it does not retain redundant memory
allocated pages? I am thinking if SWAP can be cleared, my machine will
be more responsive with current pages written to SWAP, rather than
taking up space written by now obsolete processes.
Thanks
Andy
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