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DateWed, 03 Mar 2004 19:57:49 -0800
FromMike Fedyk <>
SubjectRe: VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/
>>>
>>>- More VM tweaks and tuneups
>>
>>Running 2.6.3-lofft-snsus-264rc1mm2vm (nfsd loff_t, sunrpc locking & -mm 
>>VM patches).  Seems to be working well.
> 
> 
> OK, good.
> 
> 
>>Most of the previous 2.6 kernels I was running on these servers would be 
>>lightly hitting swap by now.  This definitely looks better to me.
> 
> 
> It sounds worse to me.  "Lightly hitting swap" is good.  It gets rid of stuff,
> freeing up physical memory.

Swapping out is good to me.  It's the swapping in, and out, and in, 
and... that's bad.

> 
> But I do not see a lot of difference here.

Let's let it run a few more days to make sure.

> The 900MB desktop machine is
> 300M into swap after 24 hours.  That's usual.

Neither of my servers have 900MB ram...

Mike
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