In article <1.5.4.32.19960501150023.008d5390@picard.csihq.com>, Mike
Black <mblack@csihq.com> writes:
> I'm running a backup script that uses afio and gzip. It eventually starts
> causing a LOT of swapping activity for no apparent reason. This is on 1.3.97
> but has been happening for a long time.
Don't worry about it, it's just that a change in the way we do file
reads resulted in normal filesystem reads being accounted as swap-ins.
It's merely an accounting problem --- there's not in fact that much
swapping going on.
Cheers,
Stephen.
--- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.