Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:00:28 -0800 | From | Benjamin Redelings I <> | Subject | Linus's VM: Evil swap frenzy (64M RAM): Stuck in freeing/swapping? |
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Hi, I'm have test1-linux-2.2.0-pre2, and about 3 times my machine has swapped out 10MB for no reason. The system was unuseable (the cursor wouldn't move in X) for about 7 seconds. When this occurred tonight, I finally ended with a situation like this:
telomere:~> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 63412 39212 24200 13084 780 21184 -/+ buffers/cache: 17248 46164 Swap: 34236 8724 25512
Before I could run 'free' (a few seconds), about 1.5 MB was swapped BACK IN (i.e 10-8.5=1.5). But you can see that, with 24M free, there is was no need to swap out anything! The last time this happened, X was swapped out (with kernel 2.1.132 I think), but it did NOT get swapped back in. I also had about 24Mb free, but whenever I moved an xterm, the system would swap in furiously, and would use something like 10MB of RAM (according to xosview 1.6.1), which would be freed immediately after I stopped moving the window. Spooky. Anybody have any idea why this is happening? -BenRI
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