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Why is my server using all my Swap but I have RAM to spare? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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This is an old desktop I use for some small self hosting services. I never use all my RAM and I don't see any RAM spikes other than when I install/compile things which I haven't done in months. I restarted the machine a couple of times, but the SWAP will eventually go right back up to 100%.

I have an Ubuntu server/yunohost setup and found: https://askubuntu.com/questions/157793/why-is-swap-being-used-even-though-i-have-plenty-of-free-ram

My cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness value is indeed 60. Im not sure what would reduce the SWAP space usage.

Would changing this swappiness value help? Anyone come across this issue before?

EDIT: Found out what it is, its the matrix server that is running on the system. Its taking up a significant amount of swap. Found out via:

smem -s swap -r -p

turning that off, the system is now using 90% less SWAP. /opt/yunohost/matrix-synaps was the process.

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[–] Coelacanthus@infosec.pub 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I think that most of usefulness of swap has passed now that we have systems with noodles of ram.

Please read this article authored by maintainer of Linux kernel memory management subsystem and cgroup subsystem, Chris Down.

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

And there is another article with some additional informations about swap authored by @farseerfc@sn.angry.im who tranlated the article above to Chinese.

https://farseerfc.me/followup-about-swap.html (only Chinese version available)