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I have Centos 7

    # cat /etc/centos-release
    CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)

fresh rsyslogd

    # rsyslogd -version
    rsyslogd 8.36.0, compiled with:

enough free memory

    # free
                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:       32741276    12244672     4931760      330064    15564844    19239180

But rsyslogd always uses about 430M of swap space, according to smem. I don't understand, why.

Can you give me some advice how to limit it's memory consumption and how to force it to use RAM instead of swap.

Igor Semenov
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That is not a problem, you are not under memory pressure. Note the 4 GB free and 14 GB of caches that could easily be dropped.

The purpose of swap, aka paging, space is to provide a way to reclaim anonymous pages. Which it will do even if there is memory available. An argument explaining this: In defence of swap: common misconceptions. And a Red Hat blog explaining some of their guidance: Do we really need swap on modern systems?

More useful would be to apply a performance profile, such as with tuned. Some of the profiles alter swappiness, but there is a lot more to performance than that.

John Mahowald
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