Re: 2.2.9 swaps a lot

Giuliano Pochini (pochini@denise.shiny.it)
Sun, 16 May 1999 11:39:57 MET DST

>2.2.6 didn't swap that much (128M machine). 2.2.9 swaps a lot more.
>Shortly after boot I started a kernel compile and vmstat reported smpd
>went from 0 to 11000 in one go. Right now it's about 16000, and
switching
>desktops just now caused ~200 to swap in, which makes it noticable.
2.2.6
>never did that. I had 2.2.6 running for about 3 weeks and swpd never
went
>over 2000.

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
play CD tracks stored on my HD, buffer entry increases until it fills
all
available memory, then it start swapping.
Strange. IMHO it's a bug.

[Giu@localhost Giu]$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 63268 61828 1440 33796 15824
10176
-/+ buffers/cache: 35828 27440
Swap: 92124 0 92124
[Giu@localhost Giu]$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 63268 61888 1380 34296 16500
9156
-/+ buffers/cache: 36232 27036
Swap: 92124 0 92124
[Giu@localhost Giu]$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 63268 61880 1388 31724 16568
10160
-/+ buffers/cache: 35152 28116
Swap: 92124 1176 90948

Bye.

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