Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: swap usage on most 2.4.x kernels | Date | Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:12:42 -0200 |
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On 26 November 2002 10:57, Max Valdez wrote: > Hi all: > > I have the same question that most people must have, why I need to > manually erase swap to avoid excesive paging after a couple of uptime > days ??.
What?
> Once i have most of my RAM ocupied (more than 50% by cache ona a 1GB > box) the swaping starts to be a problem, I know the problem is that > i like a fancy desktop style, and memory eating programs to read the > damn email, but I think there should be a way to decrese the swaping > isnt it ??.. after all, most of the ram is in chache !!, is it really > that necesary ??
There are some /proc tunables, never used 'em muself...
Care to show us /proc/meminfo, top output etc? People will be interesting *what* is eating your mem.
> BTW, im starting to have the same "old" pagging problem with > 2.4.20-rc2-ac3. after 1 uptime day. and it seems to be getting worst, > could it be a hardware problem ??, maybe my ram chips are passing the > way ?
What? You want to say they are getting slower or smaller with time? ;) -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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