From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:10:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:10:43 -0400 Received: from [195.223.140.120] ([195.223.140.120]:14949 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:10:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:14:11 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Lukas Hejtmanek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Terrible VM in 2.4.19rc3aa4 once again? Message-ID: <20020801221411.GI11749@dualathlon.random> References: <1026167822.16937.5.camel@UberGeek> <20020709005025.B1745@mail.muni.cz> <20020708225816.GA1948@werewolf.able.es> <20020709124807.D1510@mail.muni.cz> <20020710163422.GB2513@dualathlon.random> <20020801113124.GA755@mail.muni.cz> <20020801140348.GM1132@dualathlon.random> <20020801141940.GB755@mail.muni.cz> <20020801153911.GC1132@dualathlon.random> <20020801220143.GC755@mail.muni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020801220143.GC755@mail.muni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:01:43AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > > One more thing, this version seems to swap a lot more than 2.4.18rc4aa2 did. > > The old one swapped only if scsi-ide emulation was used and I think it was only > about 10mb. How it swaps more, it's common to have 100mb swapped out. I have > 512mb ram... may be an internal vm change but could you first check the difference between ps xav, /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo to see if some of the vm users changed significantly? (feel free to post me that information too so I can double check) thanks, Andrea