vmstat

[navin]

Hi,

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.
Any thoughts?

Thanks

[Ricky_HK]

the swap usage may not drop even your memory usage to down...
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.

Release the used swap? I don't think it is needed to take care... it will be managed by the system automatically.