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Linux uses lots of swap while I still have stuff in cache. Isn\t this wrong?

April 26, 2017cache isn''t linux lots stuff swap uses wrong

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Linux uses lots of swap while I still have stuff in cache. Isn\t this wrong?

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• (MRW) Not really. Linux will page out processes which haven”t been used for a long time (e.g. lpd on many systems) in favour of retaining data from files which have been used recently (e.g. header files while compiling a big program). This is more efficient. Trust us, we”re engineers.