Difference between revisions of "SwapClean"

1. !/bin/bash
2. Swap Cleaner
3. Watches swap usage
4. If there is swapping going on and there is enough free (+cache) ram, then turn swap off and back on.

1. User Assigned Variables

swapthresh=0 #Swap threshold for clearing swap. Will not clear until this value is hit freethresh=0 #Real free (free+cached) - current swap threshold. Ensures that atleast x bytes are free before clearing loadthresh=0 #Load threshold, will not clear if above this value (unless 0) logrotate=1000 #Max number of lines in the log file

function plog { echo "[ `date` ][ $curswap; $curfree; $realload ] $1" >> /var/log/swapclean if [ "`wc -l /var/log/swapclean | awk '{print $1}'`" -gt "$logrotate" ] then sed -i -e "1d" /var/log/swapclean fi }

function checkswap {

curswap=`free | fgrep "Swap:" | awk '{print $3}'` curfree=`free | fgrep "buffers/cache:" | awk '{print $4}'` realload=`top -b -n1 | fgrep "load average" | awk '{print $12}' | cut -d ',' -f1` curload=`echo "$realload * 100" | bc | sed 's/[.].*//'` loadthresh=`echo "$loadthresh *100" | bc | sed 's/[.].*//'` swapdif=`expr $curfree - $curswap`

if [ "$swapthresh" -lt "$curswap" ] then #Server has swapped and is above its threshold if [ "$freethresh" -lt "$swapdif" ] then #Free - Swap is greater then freethresh if [ "$curload" -lt "$loadthresh" -o "$loadthresh" -eq 0 ] then #Load is below threshold if [ ! -e ".swapoff" ] then plog "Clearing swap" #Not currently clearing swap, nuke it. touch .swapoff swapoff -a && swapon -a rm -f .swapoff plog "Swap Cleared" else plog "Lock file found, swap may be already clearing" fi else plog "High load, waiting to clear swap" fi else plog "Not enough free memory, waiting to clear swap" fi fi

}

function enablecron {

echo "What time would you like to set the cron to" echo "[IE: */10 * * * * ]" read crontime; if [ ! $crontime ] then crontime="*/10 * * * *" fi echo "SHELL=/bin/bash" > /etc/cron.d/swapclean.sh echo "$crontime $(readlink -f $0)" >> /etc/cron.d/swapclean.sh chmod 0755 /etc/cron.d/swapclean.sh echo "Cron enabled [$crontime $(readlink -f $0)]" }

function disablecron {

rm -f /etc/cron.d/swapclean.sh echo "Cron disabled"

}

case $1 in

       --cron)
               case $2 in

on) enablecron ;; off) disablecron ;; esac

               ;;
       --help)
               echo "Check swap usage:"

echo " --cron [on, off]" echo " on: Turns on cron job and asks for time" echo " off: Turns off the cron job"

               ;;
       *)
               checkswap
               ;;
 esac