Re: VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2

[Mike Fedyk]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/
> > >
> > > - More VM tweaks and tuneups
> >
> > Running 2.6.3-lofft-snsus-264rc1mm2vm (nfsd loff_t, sunrpc locking & -mm 
> > VM patches).  Seems to be working well.
>
>
> OK, good.
>
>
> > Most of the previous 2.6 kernels I was running on these servers would be 
> > lightly hitting swap by now.  This definitely looks better to me.
>
>
> It sounds worse to me.  "Lightly hitting swap" is good.  It gets rid of stuff,
> freeing up physical memory.

Swapping out is good to me.  It's the swapping in, and out, and in, 
and... that's bad.

> But I do not see a lot of difference here.

Let's let it run a few more days to make sure.

> The 900MB desktop machine is
> 300M into swap after 24 hours.  That's usual.

Neither of my servers have 900MB ram...

Mike
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