Messages in this thread |  | | From | S Fox <> | Subject | Strange swap problem on 2.4.5 | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:40:42 +0100 |
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Hi all
First post so be kind.
I have a problem on a webserver with the following hardware(RH6.2 /etc/sysconfig/hwconf)
class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Relience Computer|CNB20HE" vendorId: 1166 deviceId: 0009 pciType: 1 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Relience Computer|CNB20HE" vendorId: 1166 deviceId: 0009 pciType: 1 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Relience Computer|unknown device 1166:0200" vendorId: 1166 deviceId: 0200 pciType: 1 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Relience Computer|unknown device 1166:0211" vendorId: 1166 deviceId: 0211 pciType: 1 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Relience Computer|unknown device 1166:0220" vendorId: 1166 deviceId: 0220 pciType: 1 - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth driver: eepro100 desc: "Intel Corporation|82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 1229 pciType: 1 - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth driver: eepro100 desc: "Intel Corporation|82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 1229 pciType: 1 - class: SCSI bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Symbios|unknown device 1000:0020" vendorId: 1000 deviceId: 0020 pciType: 1 - class: SCSI bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Symbios|unknown device 1000:0020" vendorId: 1000 deviceId: 0020 pciType: 1 - class: VIDEO bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "ATI|unknown device 1002:4752" vendorId: 1002 deviceId: 4752 pciType: 1 - class: MOUSE bus: PSAUX detached: 0 device: psaux driver: genericps/2 desc: "Generic PS/2 Mouse" - class: CDROM bus: IDE detached: 0 device: hda driver: ignore desc: "CD-540E" - class: HD bus: SCSI detached: 0 device: sda driver: ignore desc: "Fujitsu MAJ3182MP" host: 1 id: 0 channel: 0 lun: 0
Dual pIII 1000, 1gb mem, 1gb swap
.config from kernel is CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ISA=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5 CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_PGE=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES=y CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=4 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20 CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_PCI=y CONFIG_EEPRO100=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y CONFIG_INTEL_RNG=y CONFIG_RTC=y CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_JOLIET=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1" CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
The problem is, occationally(apparently random) the system uses about 650mg swap, keeps that swap level for about a week then slowly over the next 2-3 days drops it off. However, if I dd the swap partition to a file, the swap goes down to what I'd call a normal level. Running strings through the file reveils mainly apache and perl stuff.(well it is a webserver!). Nothing else weird seems to be happening.
Any help|explanation appreciated.
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