Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:35:59 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15 |
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:14:01PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote: > Hello, > > I've running 2.4.5-ac15 for almost a day (22 hours) and I found > some strange behaviour of the kswap, at least it was not present in > 2.4.5-ac9. The swap memory increase with time as the cache dedicated > memory also increase, that is swapping process at a very fast rate, even > when no program is getting more memory. Is that the expected behaviour? > An example, with no process running (just the usual daemons and > none of them getting extra memory) the command: > > free ; sleep 60; free > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 513416 393184 120232 364 63276 254576 > -/+ buffers/cache: 75332 438084 > Swap: 530104 14228 515876 > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 513416 393192 120224 364 63276 258412 > -/+ buffers/cache: 71504 441912 > Swap: 530104 18064 512040 > > Any idea?
either apply this patch to 2.4.5ac15:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.5aa3/00_fix-unusable-vm-on-alpha-1
(note it is not an alpha specific bug, it's just that I was triggering all the time on alpha so I called the patch that way)
or better use 2.4.6pre3aa1:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.6pre3aa1.bz2
If the problem persists let me know thanks.
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