Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 05 May 2003 20:40:36 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | Re: 2.4.21-rc1 VM swaps out too much | From | Rene Rebe <> |
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Hi,
2.5.68 is much smoother, quite less swap is used, my editors are not pulled out of the swap all the time:
$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515848 505804 10044 0 92808 173876 -/+ buffers/cache: 239120 276728 Swap: 524624 35612 489012
Linux version 2.5.68 (root@jackson) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 Sun May 4 00:20:13 CEST 2003
20:39:52 up 1 day, 20:17, 2 users, load average: 3.31, 3.36, 3.19
On: Sat, 03 May 2003 21:55:34 +0200 (CEST), Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > somewhere in the 2.4.21-xx series (currently running -rc1 here) seems > to be a VM regression, that results in quite hefty swap-outs. The box > is an Athlon-XP with 512MB RAM, running batched gcc jobs (distribution > builds taking three days and more...). But the box is used a normal > workstation, too. My normal desktop programs constantly need to get > swapped-in - quite annoying. This only start to happen after an uptime > of a day. > > So the CPU: > > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 6 > model : 6 > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 4 Processor > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 1460.481 > cache size : 256 KB > > $ cat /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 527351808 519213056 8138752 0 88793088 328437760 > Swap: 537214976 184963072 352251904 > MemTotal: 514992 kB > MemFree: 7948 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 86712 kB > Cached: 252328 kB > SwapCached: 68412 kB > Active: 276828 kB > Inactive: 177468 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 514992 kB > LowFree: 7948 kB > SwapTotal: 524624 kB > SwapFree: 343996 kB > > $ uptime > 21:52:41 up 4 days, 23:55, 4 users, load average: 2.14, 2.47, 2.32 > > $ cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.4.21-rc1 (root@jackson) (gcc version 3.2.2) #1 Mon Apr 28 00:36:17 CEST 2003 > > More data available on request. > > - René
- René
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