Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:29:58 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: kupdated high load with heavy disk I/O |
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:08:27AM -0500, Rechenberg, Andrew wrote: > Ken, > > The 2.4.15pre7 kernel seems to have fixed my issue with kupdated and 4GB > RAM. We did some testing over the weekend and the box was still interactive > with a load of 7+. There still seems to be a lot of swapping going on > though. I've read from previous threads that 2.4 uses swap more readily > than 2.2 did, but should it use 10% of my swap and have almost 8MB > SwapCached?
if it only swapouts at a very slow rate over the time and it never swapin, then yes it seems sane. You may also give a spin to 2.4.15aa1 that should swap a bit less.
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