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From: dcg <diegocalleja@gmail.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swappiness in 2.6.28-rc3?
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:46:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081108184625.6a64a518@diego-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811081211.24000.gene.heskett@gmail.com>

El Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:11:23 -0500, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> escribió:

> Greetings;
> 
> I have 2.6.28-rc3 with a 5 day uptime, and I have had to do a "swapoff -a; 
> swapon -a" almost daily to clear the swap.
> 
> This is about 18 hours since I last did that:
> Mem:   4151132k total,  2891180k used,  1259952k free,   281224k buffers
> Swap:  2048276k total,    85864k used,  1962412k free,  2078404k cached
> 
> I don't recall having to do this with 2.6.27 or any of its -rc's.

I've also noticed more swappiness (very probably due to the vm scanning
rework), but I can't say for sure if it's a bad thing...

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-08 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-08 17:11 Gene Heskett
2008-11-08 17:46 ` dcg [this message]
2008-11-10  7:43   ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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