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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Siim Vahtre <siim@pld.ttu.ee>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swap never cleaned up
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:39:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030214163918.15a7209f.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.31.0302150140440.28624-100000@pitsa.pld.ttu.ee>

Siim Vahtre <siim@pld.ttu.ee> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> 
> Since moving from 2.5.59 to 2.5.60 I've noticed some strange
> behaviour with swap managment. For some unknown reason the
> swapspace starts to fill up but it will NEVER get freed.
> Hence, it is first time in my life when I actually see swap
> used more than 20M on this computer!

Everything seems OK here, from a quick swap and tmpfs test.

Is it possible that some application is leaking memory, and that
swapoff causes it to be oom-killed?

Take a careful look at the process listing, see if some process is using a
lot of memory.  Also the contents of /proc/meminfo.  And see if you can work
out what operation is causing this.

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2003-02-15  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-14 23:54 Siim Vahtre
2003-02-15  0:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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