From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:36:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:36:38 -0400 Received: from web10407.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.99]:21774 "HELO web10407.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:36:28 -0400 Message-ID: <20010619073627.14718.qmail@web10407.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:36:27 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Kieu?= Subject: Re: 2.4 VM & swap question To: Mike Galbraith Cc: kernel In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just an information for you to compare, now I am running the kernel compile from mandrake 80; version 2.4.3-20mdk on a machine Intel celeron 400Mhz 128M RAM, i810 graphic card (it will use some memory) ; runing together Star Office 5.2, Netscape 4.77, Mozilla (shiped with LM80), compiling alsa driver and you may guess how much swap it used? [sk@steve sk]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 126108 124416 1692 0 604 51820 -/+ buffers/cache: 71992 54116 Swap: 72288 0 72288 Okay I dont have any other *bloated* software to run and try to crash it :-) The same situation when I ran 2.4.5-acx (try all with 13, 14, 15) swap usage is about 45Mb and it is increasing by the time). After typing a while in netscpae email form , netscape eats memory gradually (or the kernel?) swap ran out and the machine went to deadlock even without thrashing) But now it is NOT increasing ( I am typing in yahoo mail from netscape too) , the system is up for about 3 days. Regards, --- Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, root wrote: > > > Regarding to the discussion on the swap size, > > > > Recently, Rick van Riel posted a message that > there is a bug > > related to "reclaiming" the swap, and said that it > is on his > > TODO list. > > That's fixed. > > > If I believe it, the current trouble we have > regarding to the swap > > size is not because we do not have a sufficient > size for the swap, > > but because there is a bug, although Linus advised > us to assign > > 2 times the physical memory for the swap. > > Please try 2.4.6.pre3. (folks with various load > types should do this > and report results.. even if it generates a brief > spurt of traffic). > > -Mike > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ===== S.KIEU _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!