I have noticed swap being used considerably more with the latest kernel -- has anyone else seen this?
For example, my main desktop system was sitting idle all night, in init 5, with only KDM running. The first thing this morning I checked memory, and saw this:
don@imerabox:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 6109312 2539192 3570120 0 103376 1493612
-/+ buffers/cache: 942204 5167108
Swap: 15114748 234672 14880076
Yesterday, I noticed when I was running a VM that it was actively swapping a little bit -- this was vmware. I have not ever seen that before, with a single VM running. I have vm.swappiness set lower than default -- to 1, because I have more memory than would normally be needed.
Just curious -- has anyone else observed an increase in swapping?