Messages in this thread | | | From | Marc-Christian Petersen <> | Subject | Re: VM problems in 2.4.20 | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:04:52 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:40, Adam McKenna wrote:
Hi Adam,
> I'm having a VM issue on one of my servers running 2.4.20. well, the vanilla VM, hmm, sorry: sucks :) for large boxen.
> As you can see there is plenty of memory sitting in buffers/cache. The > problem is that when our daily cronjobs run, the box starts swapping and > the load goes up to 30. The cronjobs are just the normal system cronjobs > like updatedb, checksecurity, etc. > I had this problem a while ago with 2.4.6-xfs and 2.4.14-xfs, but this is > stock 2.4.20 and I was under the impression that the VM was relatively OK > by now. > > adam@foxy:~$ grep -i mem /boot/config-2.4.20 > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set > CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > # Memory Technology Devices (MTD) > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set > # CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set > Any suggestions? yes, use either -rmap (1) or -aa (2).
1.) www.surriel.com/patches (Rik van Riel) 2.) www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels (Andrea Arcangeli)
There is also a recent thread you may want to read: - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104617534110371&w=2
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