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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: encrypted swap file
Date: 8 Oct 2015 20:41:33 GMT
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On 2015-10-08, John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 10/7/15 11:01 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/7/15 8:24 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2015-10-08, John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not seeing it now.  I have no swap files, although there are 326
>>>>> pageins.
>>>>
>>>> Pageins don't decrease performance. Pageouts, on the other hand...
>>>
>>> Darn, why can't I type what I mean!  I meant pageouts.  Now it's 50,000,
>>> but still no swap file.  Where do pageouts go?
>>
>> 50,000 is pretty high. How long has it been up since the last time this
>> machine was rebooted? How much RAM is installed in the machine?
>
> I have 4 GB.  I rebooted yesterday.  By the time I shut down, I had 30 
> MB in a 1GB encrypted swap file, and no problem.
>
> I restarted today.  There's no swap file, but pageouts have climbed to 
> 1048.  Is it buggy reporting?

Pageouts are an indication that you are running stuff that demands more
RAM than you have available. If you see this pattern continue, and want
to improve performance, you should add more RAM to the machine.

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