Re: 2.6.5-rc3-aa1

[Bongani Hlope]

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:21:21 +0200
Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thursday 01 April 2004 11:57, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> > > I'm running 2.6.5-rc2-aa4, when I woke-up in the morning almost all of my
> > > memory was gone, but my swap was never touched. I managed to get only the
> > > output of SysRq-M before it hard-locked. For some reason it doesn't swap.
> > > I'll try to reproduce.
> 
> > hmm, I am running 2.6.5-rc3-aa1 stuff ontop of 2.6.5-rc3-mm3. It works very
> > well. What is the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?
> 
> I really manage it to forget something again and again ;(

8<

> cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 
> 48
> 
> ciao, Marc

My swappiness is 60, and 2.6.5-rc2-aa4 was running fine for a while until that occured. 
Andrea sent me a python script that showed that it does swap. I'll try to reproduce it still.

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