Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test3 Why is my system swapping rather than freeing the cache ? | From | "Juan J. Quintela" <> | Date | 13 Jul 2000 03:44:37 +0200 |
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>>>>> "gerhard" == Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> writes:
gerhard> Is there a reason it's going this far into swap this far? system is System gerhard> is linux 2.4.0-test3
gerhard> [root@innerfire /root]# cat /proc/meminfo gerhard> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: gerhard> Mem: 30593024 27238400 3354624 0 692224 15863808 gerhard> Swap: 21151744 21106688 45056 gerhard> MemTotal: 29876 kB gerhard> MemFree: 3276 kB gerhard> MemShared: 0 kB gerhard> Buffers: 676 kB gerhard> Cached: 15492 kB gerhard> HighTotal: 0 kB gerhard> HighFree: 0 kB gerhard> LowTotal: 29876 kB gerhard> LowFree: 3276 kB gerhard> SwapTotal: 20656 kB gerhard> SwapFree: 44 kB
gerhard> On the bright side it seems to be still responsive when this far into swap gerhard> and it used to be unusable when this far into swap.
gerhard> System is linux 2.4.0-test3
Could you test test4-preX, it has a patch that should solve that problem.
Later, Juan.
PD. If you want test only the patch, it is at: http://carpanta.dc.fi.udc.es/~quintela/kernel/2.4.0-test3/alloc_pages_02.patch
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