Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:47:17 -0400 | From | Charles Shannon Hendrix <> | Subject | Re: OOM kills if swappiness set to 0, swap storms otherwise |
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Mon, 27 Mar 2006 @ 19:59 -0800, Andrew Morton said:
> Much porkiness. > > /proc/meminfo is very useful for obtaining a top-level view of where all > the memory's gone to. I'd tentatively say that your options are to put up > with the swapping or find a new mail client.
I use mutt for my email, and I have the same issue on a 1GB system.
I really wish we could put an upper limit on what file cache can use.
I understand the original poster was running a lot of pork, but you don't have to and still see a problem with swapping. Even running KDE my total application memory most of the time is 300MB or less on a machine with 1GB of memory.
I shouldn't be suffering from swap storms.
For example, my normal working set of programs eats about 250MB of memory. If I also start a job running to something like tag some mp3s, copy a CD, or just process a lot of files, it only takes a few minutes before performance becomes unacceptable.
If you are doing some work where you switch among several applications frequently, the pigginess of file cache becomes a serious problem.
Isn't that bad behavior by any measure?
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