From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2803138330 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2016 22:03:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4F4DE0C4E; Thu, 6 Oct 2016 22:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qt0-f172.google.com (mail-qt0-f172.google.com [209.85.216.172]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80D39E0C32 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2016 22:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qt0-f172.google.com with SMTP id m5so13998984qtb.3 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:03:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to; bh=51uZgifuBQqrIRmqJIloSYYCncCeIFfDHmHAXV15Lro=; b=Rr0sYvKKHBjrKscjM40vqpn1vRp8DvcHKvwVbRLNeA55jt7r6eE5ehjjsN2YF5xUvl DKHLQdt/J8OFiCQqsgRrx4NdOGYMOZ5hBYET9r9LLnn7Ej2FlJybKqXeRfdSw3Wl/wru 65iJSBhxEIubmKDvzIDQoUpw5AXRAWPUVYt5y3ol2bpBvDBiqFR/p4/qXKrNNRaA5Tn0 Z6CSghEen1wyR5cl5XJr7PZWHCLaeCs+wFg21Q4OzI0UCHIsbB0k1UgI2DcFEXxVecHK Gx6bTUnTIJSo+PWtFa21V4Dl19j1DGIwaoif4wLgPEihcvEggi22h/d0fZVAWr9cr66v ijIQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=51uZgifuBQqrIRmqJIloSYYCncCeIFfDHmHAXV15Lro=; b=DrVbA815wIL+C8Vkb8Qcp/57bVo2jlbo1R2jqM3CpqqHJIIRI8enfghKYZpyPYJrsu T/TDxlx0KqtHriG7Q4s1xf/aqIBZxhr7Ovv9wvzj8Feu84xDVcEZDXrG1I1qWQC54cpQ 18LLN96sUqS7KSdYRTppf2vcVtP7/+lq88x62W9OEnsvGpvko6TOmdZWI2nDyhMy/M3O snfxG927W7BvYjeh03siE8TZETv4DxlmUYa5lZtloJPdhrBskPKMdQ3PFJl6YJsJESLg C2DXE7ryslO8zjwApBpj9wLUVb+uiVnZvO7K3ptl1+nAC+bxFHXVS3ujLHX3ZjDDl0wp irzw== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RlG+9owWb6UA7qEIPuAlqMCZ5m/eUAuEarPDZBP6SU+HvDop+dPif/0pJPnZ5ElWf399yS5suVZD8H4rA== X-Received: by 10.200.51.144 with SMTP id c16mr17469695qtb.74.1475791419714; Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.140.89.83 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Oct 2016 15:03:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Rich Freeman Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 18:03:39 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qRj7Z5iC8H5A42E23rWHsbRuc1o Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strive for zero swap usage? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d2e31a2a-960d-4b1e-9576-25aff3ec13d9 X-Archives-Hash: 22a923bc359657eb80f5e20cc5443cc3 On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Grant wrote: > Swap usage on Linux always seems a little tricky to me. Should my > goal on a web server be zero swap usage, meaning the attached graph > should show no green lines at all if I'm doing it right? > No. You want things that aren't in use to be swapped, like memory leaks and such. You don't want things that will be used to be swapped. -- Rich