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From: Frank van Maarseveen <fvm@tasking.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.4.5: swap/VM strangeness
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:31:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010614183135.A16418@espoo.tasking.nl> (raw)

A PIII with 96MB ram became extremely sluggish inside X11. I managed
to terminate the X server, bringing the system in a useful state
again. While the system was completely quiet (no X server) I noticed
that a lot of both memory and swap was being used for no appearent reason:

# free 
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         93692      85164       8528          0       1404      75252
-/+ buffers/cache:       8508      85184
Swap:       133048      54944      78104

# swapoff -a
	(took a minute)

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         93692      41760      51932          0       1420      24828
-/+ buffers/cache:      15512      78180
Swap:            0          0          0

# swapon -a
# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         93692      41852      51840          0       1420      24848
-/+ buffers/cache:      15584      78108
Swap:       133048          0     133048


It looks as if the swap partition is being cached in main memory.

-- 
Frank

                 reply	other threads:[~2001-06-14 16:33 UTC|newest]

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