From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <ciarrocchi@linuxmail.org>
To: mario.Ohnewald@gmx.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap usage
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:21:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031031112118.32444.qmail@linuxmail.org> (raw)
> Hello!
Hello Mario!
or ciao Mario! because your name really sounds Italian ;)
> I am running Kernel 2.4.21 on a unstable Debian box. I have included my IDE
> Chipset driver
> I have just ONE game server on it and do not use that box very much,
> although, it uses its swap space for some reasons.
> load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
> Mem: 249136k total, 153572k used, 95564k free, 23636k buffers
> Swap: 512024k total, 143652k used, 368372k free, 24500k cached
> # hdparm -t /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 150 MB in 3.01 seconds = 49.83 MB/sec
> How can i find out why it is using so much swap, and how can i prevent it
> form doing so?
> This swap usage makes my box very slow.
I can only suggest you to try on this machine the 2.4.23-pre9,
it should really improve the VM.
Ciao,
Paolo
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2003-10-31 11:21 Paolo Ciarrocchi [this message]
2003-10-31 11:36 ` Swap usage Mario Ohnewald
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2003-10-31 10:46 Mario Ohnewald
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