Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:49:51 -0800 | From | Benjamin Redelings I <> | Subject | [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature? |
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Under certain circumstances, 2.1.130-3 simply doesn't shrink the page cache, and I get situations like this:
telomere:~> cat freesample total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 63472 61812 1660 6972 25664 22968 -/+ buffers/cache: 13180 50292 Swap: 34236 24612 9624
Is this not absurd, or am I missing something? The swap finally went up to 30 Mb, before decreasing. On exiting the installer, swap went down to 12Mb. I was simply updating my debian system over the web, which consisted of downloading 11 Mb of compressed archives, uncompressing them, and then installing them. Basically the only programs running were Netscape and the installer, and various other tidbits like 'mkfontdir'.
Usually very little is swapped out... maybe a few Mb at most. The upgrade took a lot longer than usual because of all the swapping and paging.
Any explanations? Is this a feature?
-benRI -- If E. Coli was a computer: "OPERON.DLL: Mutation in LACTOSE.DLL. Entire system halted."
Benjamin Redelings I <>< http://sdcc13.ucsd.edu/~bredelin
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