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* Exaggerated swap usage
@ 2002-11-29 11:54 Javier Marcet
  2002-11-29 12:20 ` Christer Nilsson
  2002-11-29 16:31 ` Rik van Riel
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 31+ messages in thread
From: Javier Marcet @ 2002-11-29 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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Forgive me if I don't provide enough information just yet, or am not
clear enough. I simply don't know what setting to tweak.

I'll explain.
In recent 2.4.20 pre and rc kernels ( I tend to use the ac branch ), I
had notice my system, when using X mainly, got terribly slow after some
use. It surprised me that when I tried 2.5.47 this did not happen at
all, since I thought my problem was a lack of memory - the system has
384MB -.
Hence I tried to find where the difference was. What I found is that
2.4.20 kernels - 2.4.19 does the same -, was swapping just too much,
while there was a lot free memory on the system, cached but free.
I disabled all swap and it suddenly began to work smoothly again, yet
with the random kills when memory was a scarce resource on the system.
I've tried different sysctl's vm.overcommit settings but the result is
the same.

I also found a 2.4.x kernel which did not show this behavior, WOLK, in
any version I tried.

Could you please point me toward something I can try tweaking, or some
documentation to read which explains what I can change, unless it's some
kind of kernel problem?

BTW, aa kernels behaved somewhat better on this, only that the last one
I tried -rc2aa1- had some stability problems.

I can provide you with dmesg, /proc/meminfo or whatever might be useful.

Thanks in advance :)


-- 
Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>

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2002-11-29 11:54 Exaggerated swap usage Javier Marcet
2002-11-29 12:20 ` Christer Nilsson
2002-11-29 16:31 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-30  1:38   ` Javier Marcet
2002-11-30  1:55     ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-30  2:47       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-30  5:17       ` Javier Marcet
2002-11-30 14:02       ` Exaggerated swap usage && -aa lockup Javier Marcet
2002-11-30  2:42     ` Exaggerated swap usage Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-30  3:02       ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-30  4:12         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-30  6:48           ` khromy
2002-11-30  6:49             ` Javier Marcet
2002-11-30  7:08               ` Dmitri
2002-11-30 14:05                 ` Javier Marcet
2002-11-30 18:23               ` khromy
2002-11-30 18:43                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-01  7:39                   ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-01  7:53                   ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-01 10:34                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-01  7:59                   ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-01 10:36                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-01 14:37                       ` Nuno Monteiro
2002-12-02  0:21                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-02  1:01                           ` Nuno Monteiro
2002-12-02  4:55                           ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-02 21:24                           ` Andrew Clayton
2002-11-30 14:05   ` Steffen Moser
2002-11-30 18:22     ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-01  7:57       ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-01 19:27         ` Rik van Riel

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