From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:14:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:14:13 -0400 Received: from [213.97.184.209] ([213.97.184.209]:33160 "HELO piraos.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:14:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:14:01 +0200 (CEST) From: German Gomez Garcia To: Mailing List Linux Kernel Subject: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? - german ------------------------------------------------------------------------- German Gomez Garcia | "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." | -- Wolfgang Pauli