ok. Reran e2defrag and got the same effect.
This is the vmstat output by the second. It starts out with my normal load
(but no mp3s playing). Then i start e2defrag with the same arguments as
before and allow it to run all the way through. It ends but i dont close it
until near the very end (which is seen by the swap dropoff. Then i let my
normal load again be displayed a bit. One thing i did notice, however, was
that the vm handled that quite a lot better than how it handled it after
being up for 5 days even though it created the 600MB of buffer.
Here are some /proc/meminfo readings
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 790016000 784146432 5869568 1929216 506896384 116387840
Swap: 133885952 87826432 46059520
MemTotal: 771500 kB
MemFree: 5732 kB
MemShared: 1884 kB
Buffers: 495016 kB
Cached: 29848 kB
SwapCached: 83812 kB
Active: 312468 kB
Inact_dirty: 298092 kB
Inact_clean: 0 kB
Inact_target: 157272 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 771500 kB
LowFree: 5732 kB
SwapTotal: 130748 kB
SwapFree: 44980 kB
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 790016000 782893056 7122944 188416 633905152 13586432
Swap: 133885952 116785152 17100800
MemTotal: 771500 kB
MemFree: 6956 kB
MemShared: 184 kB
Buffers: 619048 kB
Cached: 7920 kB
SwapCached: 5348 kB
Active: 320744 kB
Inact_dirty: 311756 kB
Inact_clean: 0 kB
Inact_target: 157272 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 771500 kB
LowFree: 6956 kB
SwapTotal: 130748 kB
SwapFree: 16700 kB
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