On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:55 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 08/30/11 12:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>
>>>> total used free shared buffers cached
>>>> >> Mem: 56481 55486 995 0 15
>>>> >> 53298
>>>> >> -/+ buffers/cache: 2172 54309
>>>> >> Swap: 1099 18 1081
>>>
>>> > This is totally uninteresting.
>>
>> Yeah. You're going to need a whole lot more than 17MB of bloat before
>> it'll be possible to tell which process is at fault, given that the
>> expected process sizes are up to 10GB.
>
> indeed, its 100% normal for the linux virtual memory manager to write
> 'dirty' pages to the swapfile during idle time.
Sure, but it shouldn't grow indefinitely?
