Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:36:27 +1000 (EST) | From | Steve Kieu <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 VM & swap question |
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Just an information for you to compare, now I am running the kernel compile from mandrake 80; version 2.4.3-20mdk on a machine Intel celeron 400Mhz 128M RAM, i810 graphic card (it will use some memory) ; runing together Star Office 5.2, Netscape 4.77, Mozilla (shiped with LM80), compiling alsa driver and you may guess how much swap it used?
[sk@steve sk]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 126108 124416 1692 0 604 51820 -/+ buffers/cache: 71992 54116 Swap: 72288 0 72288
Okay I dont have any other *bloated* software to run and try to crash it :-)
The same situation when I ran 2.4.5-acx (try all with 13, 14, 15) swap usage is about 45Mb and it is increasing by the time). After typing a while in netscpae email form , netscape eats memory gradually (or the kernel?) swap ran out and the machine went to deadlock even without thrashing)
But now it is NOT increasing ( I am typing in yahoo mail from netscape too) , the system is up for about 3 days.
Regards,
--- Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, root wrote: > > > Regarding to the discussion on the swap size, > > > > Recently, Rick van Riel posted a message that > there is a bug > > related to "reclaiming" the swap, and said that it > is on his > > TODO list. > > That's fixed. > > > If I believe it, the current trouble we have > regarding to the swap > > size is not because we do not have a sufficient > size for the swap, > > but because there is a bug, although Linus advised > us to assign > > 2 times the physical memory for the swap. > > Please try 2.4.6.pre3. (folks with various load > types should do this > and report results.. even if it generates a brief > spurt of traffic). > > -Mike > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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