The Host Swap memory usage

Products

• CA Directory

Issue/Introduction

Seeing a lot of alerts related to the swap memory  of the host 

is it possible to free the swap without restarting the dxserver process

Environment

CA Directory 

dxserver 14.1.x

Resolution

The directory uses standard OS system calls for memory and I/O operations. So the OS kernel takes care of how the memory is managed that is how much memory should be in physical memory RAM and swap memory. Typically the OS provides commands to enable/disable swap, and increase swappiness, but they will be applied at the OS level for all the processes. So this should be addressed by the Linux administrator about what is causing the swap usage as Directory does not have control over managing the swap memory usage.

Additional Information

For reference, you can review the ticket DE604782