Real Memory 42% vs Virtual @ 99%
One of my Linodes is always running at 99% Virtual - is that bad? The real memory is at 42% - so don't understand why it's swapping so much.
CentOS 7, LAMP install with a bunch of small wordpress sites.
Currently it's showing
Real memory 3.77 GB total / 1.59 GB used
Virtual memory 250 MB total / 249.21 MB used
Should I increase my swap size ? or increase my Linode memory?
Thanks
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Overall, you should not really be too concerned by how much swap is used. The more important thing is how many pages are actively being swapped in and out - lots of swapping will slow down your server's responsiveness to users. You can look at this on the swap IO graph in the Linode manager, or by using a tool like vmstat.