swapspace grows with no return

[Doug Denault]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2020, Doug Denault wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Aug 2020, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 12:52:35 -0400 (EDT)
>> Doug Denault <doug at safeport.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I ran vmstat over night; there were about 10 pageins and no pageouts. top
>>> and 'systat vmstat' also show no paging. The swap file when from 18% to
>>> 20% over that time frame. The obvious question is: how come?
>>
>> 	Do you have a swap backed tmpfs mounted ?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
>
> No. Would that make finding the offending jail possible?
>
Never mind - read about tmpfs, does not seem the best idea in the world as 
/tmp/ get used a bunch in the wordpress/php world.

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