Messages in this thread |  | | From | Frank Dekervel <> | Subject | Re: need help interpreting 'free' output. | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:02:46 +0100 |
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Op dinsdag 30 oktober 2001 12:46, schreef Mike Fedyk: > 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...
Hi,
i already use 2.4 for some time. the thing that bugs me is the 'used' figures go up, and no processes actually use that memory (not the buffered/cached, well, they go up , but thats normal) , so it seems the memory is 'lost' somewhere, and i don't see any processes using it up, and 200 meg ram in 70 seconds is a lot ... So or i am misinterpreting something, or i am completely clueless, or there is a leak somewhere..
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