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ever increasing Swap usage, yet Physical memory remains the same

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ever increasing Swap usage, yet Physical memory remains the same
Under a mod_perl lsql environment I have noticed that swap usage keeps increasing unless I use the MaxRequestsPerChild directive to a sensible value instead of 0 (unlimited)

Physical memory (cache memory available under linux) remains the same. Does this mean there's a memory leak?
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It's somewhat normal for a busy linux system to increase its swap usage (since it will often move data from physical memory into swap). If it's increasing to the point where it runs out of swap, then there's probably a problem somewhere, but otherwise it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Adrian