Re: Odd swap behavior in 2.1.60

tenthumbs (10@dhack3-172.cybernex.net)
Sun, 2 Nov 1997 13:55:56 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:

>
> Thanks for the error logs -- it does look as though your system has lost
> track of swap pages, lots of 'em. More than 10M ...
>

Free only reported 2M to 8M of swap in use, not 10M. Hmmm.


>
> OK, I'd like to see if there's some pattern of usage associated with
> it. Try turning off the first swapfile soon after it first starts
> swapping, then turn it back on. Keep trying that until you start
> getting the page unused messages, and see if you can find an unusual
> event that causes the pages to be lost.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>

Let you know soon. One note, there are exactly 12 error messages from
swap_free at system halt in every run.