Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:28:08 -0400 | From | bee71e@netscape ... | Subject | Re: excessive swapping in 2.4.x |
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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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