On 09:48 Thu 14 Dec     , Grant wrote:
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> The "Swap: 24k" then remains.  Is that normal?

If the question is whether it is normal that the swap space is not freed
even when it's not being used anymore, the answer would be "yes".

Writing to disk is too expensive, so I think the kernel does free the swap
space only when it really needs that space. Someone correct me if I'm
wrong though.

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