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CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

A Linux systems administrator is investigating reports of slow application response on a server. Upon checking, the administrator runs free -m and observes that a significant amount of swap space is being used, even though several gigabytes of physical RAM are still reported as 'free'. The top command also shows a high I/O wait percentage (%wa). Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for the system swapping memory pages to disk under these specific conditions?

  • An application has a memory leak that has consumed all physical RAM.

  • The vm.swappiness kernel parameter is configured with a high value.

  • The swap partition is full and cannot accept new memory pages.

  • The system has insufficient physical RAM to run the current workload.

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