Re: 2.4.0-test3 Why is my system swapping rather than freeing the cache ?

From: Juan J. Quintela (quintela@fi.udc.es)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 20:44:37 EST

>>>>> "gerhard" == Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> writes:

gerhard> Is there a reason it's going this far into swap this far? system is System
gerhard> is linux 2.4.0-test3

gerhard> [root@innerfire /root]# cat /proc/meminfo
gerhard> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
gerhard> Mem: 30593024 27238400 3354624 0 692224 15863808
gerhard> Swap: 21151744 21106688 45056
gerhard> MemTotal: 29876 kB
gerhard> MemFree: 3276 kB
gerhard> MemShared: 0 kB
gerhard> Buffers: 676 kB
gerhard> Cached: 15492 kB
gerhard> HighTotal: 0 kB
gerhard> HighFree: 0 kB
gerhard> LowTotal: 29876 kB
gerhard> LowFree: 3276 kB
gerhard> SwapTotal: 20656 kB
gerhard> SwapFree: 44 kB

gerhard> On the bright side it seems to be still responsive when this far into swap
gerhard> and it used to be unusable when this far into swap.

gerhard> System is linux 2.4.0-test3

Could you test test4-preX, it has a patch that should solve that
problem.

Later, Juan.

PD. If you want test only the patch, it is at:
http://carpanta.dc.fi.udc.es/~quintela/kernel/2.4.0-test3/alloc_pages_02.patch 

-- 
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are different -- Larry McVoy

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