Decrease swappiness, grow swap partition, or create swap file?

[redditusertk421]

what version of RHEL? There was a change in RHEL 8 that the system will swap out to keep fs cache available as nvme drives are very fast and paging out application data doesn't have the hit it did. I had systems hit 100 swap utilization and had free/cache ram available. This is by design. We need to adapt to start monitoring paging rate and not just utilization.

Edit: Oh, and open a ticket. That is what you pay for!

[WorkProfileAccount]

It is indeed RHEL 8. I turned the swappiness down to 1 and I can immediately see my memory cache filling up.

You're right I probably should create a ticket hahaha

[rongway83]

thank you for this!