RE: VM problems with 2.2.16 / 2.2.17

From: Robert Cohen (robert@apex.net.au)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 10:10:54 EST


Igmar Palsenberg <maillist@chello.nl> writes

>>I tried plain 2.2.16, 2.2.16-mm-fix-4, 2.2.17pre , all give the same
>>behaviour :
>>
>> total used free shared buffers cached
>>Mem: 193304 189248 4056 46724 74808 74612
>>-/+ buffers/cache: 39828 153476
>>Swap: 136544 4580 131964
>>
>>
>>Two thing I see : Large buffer and shared numbers.
>>
>>Can someone enlighten me on why these are so high ?? Sounds like something
>>got very broken in 2.2.16...

That sounds like normal behaviour. Linux uses up all unused memory as
buffers.
If the space is needed they will be released.
And a number of pages that havent been referenced for a while will be
swapped out.

You havent indicated anything that sounds like a problem. Is swapping
effecting the machine performance or anything?

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