Re: 2.5.68-mm2: Memory & swap issues ?

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 15:24:40 EST


Philippe Gramoullé <philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com> wrote:
>
> MemTotal: 514452 kB
> MemFree: 20720 kB
> Buffers: 8200 kB
> Cached: 74148 kB
> SwapCached: 38488 kB
> Active: 412740 kB
> Inactive: 12824 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 514452 kB
> LowFree: 20720 kB
> SwapTotal: 618460 kB
> SwapFree: 15156 kB
> Dirty: 7228 kB
> Writeback: 0 kB
> Mapped: 337808 kB
> Slab: 57520 kB
> Committed_AS: 1023568 kB
> PageTables: 2804 kB
> VmallocTotal: 516040 kB
> VmallocUsed: 3308 kB
> VmallocChunk: 512688 kB

Are you sure you don't have some big leaky application which is swapped
out?

Check `top', `ps aux', etc, see if something has a big virtual size.

Restart the X server.

See if swapoff -a invokes the oom-killer ;)

Failing all that, it might be a swapspace accounting error.

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