From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265152AbUHMGoe (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 02:44:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269010AbUHMGoe (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 02:44:34 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]:20396 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265152AbUHMGoc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 02:44:32 -0400 Subject: Re: excessive swapping From: Florin Andrei Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1092379250.2597.14.camel@rivendell.home.local> References: <1092379250.2597.14.camel@rivendell.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092379468.2597.16.camel@rivendell.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:44:28 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 23:40, Florin Andrei wrote: > The system is swapping excessively. There's no way the total size of the > applications exceeds the size of RAM. There's plenty of room to spare, > yet 16% of the 530MB of swap is used. Now it's 22% and counting. Way to go. :-( > With the Fedora 2 kernel, this never happens. I did exactly the same > things, and there was no excessive swapping. The system feels very > responsive and fast. In such situations, there is 0% swapping with the FC2 kernel. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/