Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 03:46:23 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: need help interpreting 'free' output. |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:32:52PM +0100, Frank Dekervel wrote: > so now there is 220 meg used memory right ? > and the memory is definitely used, because as soon as i start a memory hog > the system hits swap ... > > so what am i missing here ? > should i provide more info about my kernel configuration ? vmstat numbers ? >
Ahh, are you a new convert from a 2.2 kernel?
In 2.4 the kernel will swap out much earlier to make room for the running programs, and disk cache. This is normal.
Earlier 2.4 kernels didn't do so well, but I won't go into detail because there is already enough about that in the archives...
When you watch vmstat, if you see a lot of swapping traffic without much good reason, then you should probably report something...
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