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Metricbeat shows swap usage after disabling Windows paging file #19875
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@ErnestoBezanilla I had a look at the type of information
The committed memory limit here could be thought as the maximum potential pagefile usage if pagefile is enabled and it will still be counted in systems with no pagefile. I would not go on the At the moment users can try the That said, the documentation should either be clarified on the windows side or a new implementation should be considered here. |
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Reproduced with 7.5 / 7.6 + Win 2016 Server / Win 10
After disabling the paging file on Windows systems via
System Properties → Advanced → Performance → Advanced → Virtual memory
metricbeat still shows swap usage.Current library version gets swap info from the windows syscall
GlobalMemoryStatusEx
. Newer versions of the library have switched to an alternate approach, using the Windows system utilitywmic
, i.e.wmic pagefile list full
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