Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hours rest

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 12:14:18 EDT

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    On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Dietmar Kling wrote:

    > i thought i add a report to the new VM in 2.4.0pre9
    >
    > My Machine has 256 MB of memory
    > I left it for two hours ( several Netscapes -Instances,
    > Mail and xmms running _nothing in swap_ )
    >
    > When I tried to restart my work after 2 hours,
    > the machine started swapping madly.

    Does this swapping storm get less (or even go
    away?) when you apply my small patch to test9-pre1?

    http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t9-vmpatch

    > I believe this is a tuning issue, so
    > i do not complain :)

    Indeed. Now that the testing base for the VM patch
    has increased so much, there are a few as-of-yet
    untested workloads popping up that don't perform
    very well.

    I'm gathering details about those workloads and
    trying to fix them as best as possible.

    regards,

    Rik 

    --
"What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!"
       -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000

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