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From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <ciarrocchi@linuxmail.org>
To: mario.Ohnewald@gmx.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap usage
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:21:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031031112118.32444.qmail@linuxmail.org> (raw)

> Hello!
Hello Mario! 
or ciao Mario! because your name really sounds Italian ;)

> I am running Kernel 2.4.21 on a unstable Debian box. I have included my IDE
> Chipset driver
> I have just ONE game server on it and do not use that box very much,
> although, it uses its swap space for some reasons.

> load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
> Mem:    249136k total,   153572k used,    95564k free,    23636k buffers
> Swap:   512024k total,   143652k used,   368372k free,    24500k cached

> # hdparm -t /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  150 MB in  3.01 seconds =  49.83 MB/sec

> How can i find out why it is using so much swap, and how can i prevent it
> form doing so? 
> This swap usage makes my box very slow.

I can only suggest you to try on this machine the 2.4.23-pre9,
it should really improve the VM.

Ciao,
               Paolo
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             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-31 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-31 11:21 Paolo Ciarrocchi [this message]
2003-10-31 11:36 ` Mario Ohnewald
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2003-10-31 10:46 Mario Ohnewald

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