Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 May 1996 16:18:35 +0100 | Subject | Excessive swapping using afio | From | Stephen Tweedie <> |
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Hi,
In article <1.5.4.32.19960501150023.008d5390@picard.csihq.com>, Mike Black <mblack@csihq.com> writes:
> I'm running a backup script that uses afio and gzip. It eventually starts > causing a LOT of swapping activity for no apparent reason. This is on 1.3.97 > but has been happening for a long time.
Don't worry about it, it's just that a change in the way we do file reads resulted in normal filesystem reads being accounted as swap-ins. It's merely an accounting problem --- there's not in fact that much swapping going on.
Cheers, Stephen. --- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
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