[Cialug] Swap @ DO

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 08:25:01PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Have a dropket eith 4G memory, but it came with 512M of swap.
> 
> It us throwing alerts for no swap left, but memory is only 20-49% used.
> 

How much swap is actually being used?

How often does the alerting mechanism poll the system for this
information?  Is the alerting mechanism external to your running system,
or does it have components that execute under your control?

> Thinking it would be best to take the swap partition out, but thus id a
> prod VM so would like to comfirm.
> 

I wouldn't necessarily advise that, but it may be useful for testing.
Perhaps if there's an event that happens where the swap is actually being
used it will cause out of memory failures instead of a full swap area.

	Jonathan