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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by feld on Sunday January 29, 2017 @08:14AM (#13513970)
I have FreeBSD systems that use gigs of swap with gigs of memory free. If you have a Linux system with that much swap usage it's usually about to crash (as it struggling under memory pressure)

People should stop monitoring swap usage and start monitoring the amount of page in / page out IO.

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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by lima on Sunday January 29, 2017 @08:43AM (#13514078)
Not true. I have plenty of Linux systems that use gigabytes of swap with 100+GB of free RAM.

Monitoring swap usage doesn't make sense on either FreeBSD or Linux.

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