Re: 2.2.9 swaps a lot

Ricardo Galli Granada (gallir@atlas-iap.es)
Tue, 18 May 1999 01:31:14 +0200 (MEST)

> It seems that this behaviour started with v.2.2.7. For example I
> noticed
> that linux swaps even if there still is a lot of free memory !! When I

I saw this bahaviour in 2.2.9 but not in 2.2.7. Check the numbers in two
2.2.9 with a lot of free ram (384 and 256 MB). I noticed that it swaps
when running analog of apache logs (about 200 MB each). The machines have
not interactive users (i.e. no shells and X).

gallir@atlante:/home/people/gallir > free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 387604 379048 8556 24124 104904 239492
-/+ buffers/cache: 34652 352952
Swap: 130748 2456 128292

gallir@star:/home/people/gallir > free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 257720 251520 6200 21316 10664 214568
-/+ buffers/cache: 26288 231432
Swap: 129004 7500 121504

Best regards,

--
Ricardo Galli






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