https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/vmstat/m-p/4681144#M42016 Hi,<BR /><BR />AS you know if any process required more memory in linux and in turn the swap is used heavily - the swap usage would show high even though the resource utilizatio n back to normal. How do we clear the swap usage status -which showes high - but really not.<BR />Any thoughts?<BR /><BR />Thanks Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:05:26 GMT navin 2010-08-30T21:05:26Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/vmstat/m-p/4681144#M42016 Hi,<BR /><BR />AS you know if any process required more memory in linux and in turn the swap is used heavily - the swap usage would show high even though the resource utilizatio n back to normal. How do we clear the swap usage status -which showes high - but really not.<BR />Any thoughts?<BR /><BR />Thanks Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:05:26 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/vmstat/m-p/4681144#M42016 navin 2010-08-30T21:05:26Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/vmstat/m-p/4681145#M42017 the swap usage may not drop even your memory usage to down...<BR />if you want to know your swap memory is being using or not... use vmstat command, it shows si (swap) and so (swap out), if your si an so is zero.<BR /><BR />Release the used swap? I don't think it is needed to take care... it will be managed by the system automatically. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:49:35 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/vmstat/m-p/4681145#M42017 Ricky_HK 2010-08-31T01:49:35Z