Great suggestions, guys -- thank you.
swapoff -a and flushing the caches didn't seem to help, so I set up a grep
to trigger it and ran vmstat while it happened. Here's what it looked like:
(same below)
# vmstat 1 20
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
-----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
wa st
3 0 0 5812304 30264 1778336 0 0 54 335 0 1 9 3 87
1 0
2 0 0 5811920 30468 1778936 0 0 4 1796 6978 8867 15 8 77
0 0
3 0 0 5812408 30508 1778748 0 0 8 420 5927 7629 18 10 72
0 0
1 1 0 5681840 30668 1908620 0 0 130028 452 7604 10496 13 6
72 9 0
1 1 0 5550332 30800 2040232 0 0 131720 1172 7764 9461 13 6
71 10 0
0 2 0 5430436 30928 2159248 0 0 118900 840 8050 10660 11 6
70 13 0
1 2 0 5315092 31068 2273484 0 0 114616 460 6937 8869 11 5
66 18 0
3 2 0 5208540 31192 2380296 0 0 106432 564 7668 10066 12 6
65 17 0
1 2 0 5118892 31288 2469988 0 0 89500 544 7689 9516 12 5 64
19 0
1 2 0 5028684 31400 2558524 0 0 88844 808 7326 9238 12 5 63
20 0
1 2 0 4924492 31544 2662840 0 0 103988 628 7456 9810 12 5
63 19 0
1 2 0 4831736 31648 2756024 0 0 93144 608 7689 9795 12 6 65
18 0
1 2 0 4719720 31772 2866888 0 0 109676 744 7711 10941 12 6
63 19 0
1 3 0 4616352 31880 2969904 0 0 102896 292 6922 8493 12 5
61 21 0
1 2 0 4494184 32020 3090440 0 0 120708 796 6869 8188 12 5
60 22 0
1 2 0 4369972 32160 3215716 0 0 125060 476 8177 10652 13 6
62 19 0
1 2 0 4235760 32296 3348232 0 0 133160 416 6612 9239 12 5
63 20 0
1 2 0 4105792 32436 3478512 0 0 129872 740 6275 8310 12 5
63 19 0
0 2 0 3988792 32576 3595920 0 0 117792 680 7893 10583 6 5
74 15 0
1 0 0 3984824 33252 3598744 0 0 1812 4064 7432 10556 11 5
83 1 0
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