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How to Tell Your OpenVZ VPS is Swapping

Nov 10, 2010

So you think your OpenVZ VPS really has "guaranteed memory"? Well. Not quite. I have got an OpenVZ VPS from one of the providers listed here -- 256MB guaranteed and 512MB burstable memory. When I run free it shows $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 512 65 446 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 65 446 Swap: 0 0 0 So -- 512MB total memory and 0 swap? After all I am only using 65MB of memory so well below my "guarant...

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