SwapClean

Overview

Script that is run via cron every ~10 minutes. Main purpose is to clear any swap usage if the system has the enough free ram and load is below a set value.

Script

[bash,n]#!/bin/bash

1. Swap Cleaner
2. Watches swap usage
3. 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 }

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 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

What to change

swapthresh

This value allows swap to get to a certain level before looking to swap.

freethresh

This is the level of extra free ram the script will require before attempting to clean swap

loadthresh

This is the load level threshold at which the script will allow swap to be cleaned.

logrotate

This is the number of lines that will be stored in the log file. When reached the top line will be deleted.