Hi,all
You might remember I had issues with massive swapping and wanted to know
whether I can control the amount of cache and buffers and so on.Well I
thought a mem upgrade would do the trick ,but no :-(
Not easy to explain to my boss that it still crawls with 512 MB mem and
that's the max limit in this laptop..Anyone found any solutions ?? Check
this out:
top -bn 1|head -n 30
16:25:46 up 2:56, 4 users, load average: 0.50, 0.46, 0.43
79 processes: 77 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 9.8% user, 8.5% system, 0.0% nice, 81.7% idle
Mem: 513692K total, 512072K used, 1620K free, 21564K buffers
Swap: 248968K total, 60180K used, 188788K free, 323668K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
950 ce 14 0 150M 150M 149M R 18.2 29.9 13:01 vmware
1146 ce 17 0 1000 996 772 R 7.3 0.1 0:00 top
952 ce 9 0 42572 9528 8268 S 0.9 1.8 0:12 vmware-mks
1 root 8 0 524 480 460 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapm-idled
4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00
ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
69 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd
92 daemon 9 0 464 380 380 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap
218 root 9 0 648 596 528 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 syslogd
221 root 9 0 1192 460 460 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd
242 root 8 0 676 520 520 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 cardmgr
248 root 9 0 728 620 620 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 rpc.statd
251 root 8 0 512 508 496 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 apmd
262 root 9 0 556 484 484 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 inetd
307 root 9 0 1192 968 856 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nmbd
309 root 9 0 1168 812 812 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 smbd
316 root 9 0 1240 1028 1028 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 sshd
it just caches like crazy and things start to crawl cause its
swapping.More than 300 MB of cache what on earth is being cached ?? I
can't stand ths anymore I guess I'll have to back down to 2.2 again,but
that'll have other downsides :-( *sigh*
I'm willing to help as much as I can with this I don't want to give up
on Linux just like that.
best regards
Christian
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