Re: 2.4.0-test3 Why is my system swapping rather than freeing the cache ?

From: Juan J. Quintela (quintela@fi.udc.es)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 21:44:37 EDT

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    >>>>> "gerhard" == Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> writes:

    gerhard> Is there a reason it's going this far into swap this far? system is System
    gerhard> is linux 2.4.0-test3

    gerhard> [root@innerfire /root]# cat /proc/meminfo
    gerhard> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
    gerhard> Mem: 30593024 27238400 3354624 0 692224 15863808
    gerhard> Swap: 21151744 21106688 45056
    gerhard> MemTotal: 29876 kB
    gerhard> MemFree: 3276 kB
    gerhard> MemShared: 0 kB
    gerhard> Buffers: 676 kB
    gerhard> Cached: 15492 kB
    gerhard> HighTotal: 0 kB
    gerhard> HighFree: 0 kB
    gerhard> LowTotal: 29876 kB
    gerhard> LowFree: 3276 kB
    gerhard> SwapTotal: 20656 kB
    gerhard> SwapFree: 44 kB

    gerhard> On the bright side it seems to be still responsive when this far into swap
    gerhard> and it used to be unusable when this far into swap.

    gerhard> System is linux 2.4.0-test3

    Could you test test4-preX, it has a patch that should solve that
    problem.

    Later, Juan.

    PD. If you want test only the patch, it is at:
    http://carpanta.dc.fi.udc.es/~quintela/kernel/2.4.0-test3/alloc_pages_02.patch 

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