Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:36:11 +0200 | From | Juan <> | Subject | Re: Bad, bad, bad VM behaviour in 2.4.10 |
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Marcelo Tosatti escribió: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Juan wrote: > > > Marcelo Tosatti escribió: > > > > > > Juan, > > > > > > It is a known problem which we are looking into. > > > > > > I need some information which may help confirm a guess of mine: > > > > > > Do you have swap available ? > > Yes, the /dev/hda6 partition, that is 257000 KB in size. > > > > > > > > If so, there was available anonymous memory to be swapped out ? > > > > Anonymous memory? Sorry, but I do not understand this question. Could > > you redo it? > > By anynomymous memory I mean memory which is not disk cache (ie is not > data which is going to be written to the filesystem): Program data.
Well, every program has data that can be swapped out. Perhaps, you want to know if I run programs which allocate big chunks of memory. No. I run X-Windows+KDE2+XMMS+something else (sendmail, named, gpm). You can see which programs were killed by the VM system in my first e-mail.
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