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swo0sh_gt_13163
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May 20, 2014

BIG-IP uses SWAP memory though TMM memory is free?

Hello Folks,   Can anyone please help me understand in which situation F5 uses SWAP memory, when TMM memory is available to use? I have diagnosed the QKview and found that TMM memory is freely ava...
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pete_71470
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May 20, 2014

It is also the nature of Linux systems to proactively age out memory to the swap partition/file to make actual swap operations faster. So even though large amounts of memory are free and the system is enduring no memory pressure, swap continues to be in use but not for actual swap operations.