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

From: Gerhard Mack (gmack@innerfire.net)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 04:29:04 EST

On 13 Jul 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote:

> >>>>> "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.
>

Kernel 2.4.0-test4-pre6

        total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 30855168 30105600 749568 0 401408 12279808
Swap: 21151744 18051072 3100672
MemTotal: 30132 kB
MemFree: 732 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 392 kB
Cached: 11992 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 30132 kB
LowFree: 732 kB
SwapTotal: 20656 kB
SwapFree: 3028 kB

Quite a bit better didn't see SwapFree hit 0 this time though I wonder
what my performance would be like if cached < swapfree.

        Gerhard 

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Gerhard Mack

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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.

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