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, 26 Nov 2001 10:30:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:30:03 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:23314 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:29:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:29:58 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: "Rechenberg, Andrew" Cc: "'Ken Brownfield'" , "'linux-mm@kvack.org'" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: kupdated high load with heavy disk I/O Message-ID: <20011126162958.O14196@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <35F52ABC3317D511A55300D0B73EB8056FCC50@cinshrexc01.shermfin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <35F52ABC3317D511A55300D0B73EB8056FCC50@cinshrexc01.shermfin.com>; from ARechenberg@shermanfinancialgroup.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:08:27AM -0500 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:08:27AM -0500, Rechenberg, Andrew wrote: > Ken, > > The 2.4.15pre7 kernel seems to have fixed my issue with kupdated and 4GB > RAM. We did some testing over the weekend and the box was still interactive > with a load of 7+. There still seems to be a lot of swapping going on > though. I've read from previous threads that 2.4 uses swap more readily > than 2.2 did, but should it use 10% of my swap and have almost 8MB > SwapCached? if it only swapouts at a very slow rate over the time and it never swapin, then yes it seems sane. You may also give a spin to 2.4.15aa1 that should swap a bit less. Andrea