Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2001 19:34:30 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Swap strangeness using 2.4.5pre2aa1 |
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, G. Hugh Song wrote:
> My Alpha/LInux UP2000 SMP with 1GB memory is running kernel
> The following is the output from "free" > ========================================================================= > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1023128 1015640 7488 0 544 948976 > -/+ buffers/cache: 66120 957008 > Swap: 1021936 1021936 0 > ==========================================================================
> I understand that free swap space may become close to 0 and stay > there for a while once it ever reached down close to zero. > However, it should back up some nonzero number if the situation > is cleared.
Something is wrong with the 2.4 VM. As of yet, it cannot reclaim swap space once it is full. This is pretty much the next thing on my TODO list, right after the worst highmem lockups and balancing issues have been fixed.
Watch http://www.surriel.com/patches/ closely, swap reclaiming is next on my TODO list ;)
regards,
Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml
Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...
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