From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: German Gomez Garcia <german@piraos.com>
Cc: Mailing List Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:35:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010618143559.A23006@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106181150320.11843-100000@hal9000.piraos.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106181150320.11843-100000@hal9000.piraos.com>; from german@piraos.com on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:14:01PM +0200
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:14:01PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've running 2.4.5-ac15 for almost a day (22 hours) and I found
> some strange behaviour of the kswap, at least it was not present in
> 2.4.5-ac9. The swap memory increase with time as the cache dedicated
> memory also increase, that is swapping process at a very fast rate, even
> when no program is getting more memory. Is that the expected behaviour?
> An example, with no process running (just the usual daemons and
> none of them getting extra memory) the command:
>
> free ; sleep 60; free
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 513416 393184 120232 364 63276 254576
> -/+ buffers/cache: 75332 438084
> Swap: 530104 14228 515876
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 513416 393192 120224 364 63276 258412
> -/+ buffers/cache: 71504 441912
> Swap: 530104 18064 512040
>
> Any idea?
either apply this patch to 2.4.5ac15:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.5aa3/00_fix-unusable-vm-on-alpha-1
(note it is not an alpha specific bug, it's just that I was triggering
all the time on alpha so I called the patch that way)
or better use 2.4.6pre3aa1:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.6pre3aa1.bz2
If the problem persists let me know thanks.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-18 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-18 10:14 Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15 German Gomez Garcia
2001-06-18 12:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-06-18 13:17 ` German Gomez Garcia
2001-06-18 13:34 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-06-18 13:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-18 13:43 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-18 13:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-18 14:54 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-18 15:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-18 16:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-18 17:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-18 13:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-18 13:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-19 5:20 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] <20010618174445.F1317@athlon.random>
2001-06-18 19:32 ` German Gomez Garcia
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