From: bee71e@netscape.net
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: excessive swapping in 2.4.x
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:28:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C19C4AA.6428E24C.0005DAE9@netscape.net> (raw)
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>bee71e@netscape.net wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am using 2.4.21 and I see an unusually large amount of swapping for relatively low load :
>>
>>sample vmstat output: (note that the system is almost idle)
>>
>> procs memory swap io system cpu
>>r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
>>0 2 0 1850220 10524 9412 703652 3030 1102 3912 1106 1506 1710 1 1 98
>>0 2 0 1849188 10572 9388 700568 2780 376 3558 379 1434 1284 1 1 99
>>0 5 0 1851576 11668 9404 698228 2999 479 3890 488 1499 1487 1 1 98
>>
>>Is this a known issue? Whats happening? How do I fix this?
>>
>
>You could try the latest 2.4 prerelease. It has some VM updates.
thanks. Will do that. btw, I narrowed down this particular issue to a hardware failure.
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