Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

From: Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
Date: Sun May 13 2001 - 13:16:30 EST


Hi Mike,

On Sat, 12 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Why do I not see this behavior with a heavy swap throughput test
> load? It seems decidedly odd to me that swapspace should remain
> allocated on other folks lightly loaded boxen given that my heavily
> loaded box does release swapspace quite regularly. What am I
> missing?

Are you using a database or something other which mostly uses shared
mem/tmpfs? This does reclaim swap space on swap in.

Greetings
                Christoph

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