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SubjectRe: excessive swapping in 2.4.x
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:

>
>
>bee71e@netscape.net wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am using 2.4.21 and I see an unusually large amount of swapping for relatively low load :
>>
>>sample vmstat output: (note that the system is almost idle)
>>
>>  procs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
>>r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
>>0  2  0 1850220  10524   9412 703652 3030 1102  3912  1106 1506  1710   1   1  98
>>0  2  0 1849188  10572   9388 700568 2780 376  3558   379 1434  1284   1   1  99
>>0  5  0 1851576  11668   9404 698228 2999 479  3890   488 1499  1487   1   1  98
>>
>>Is this a known issue? Whats happening? How do I fix this?
>>
>
>You could try the latest 2.4 prerelease. It has some VM updates.

thanks. Will do that. btw, I narrowed down this particular issue to a hardware failure.

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