From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263214AbTJaLVV (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:21:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263207AbTJaLVU (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:21:20 -0500 Received: from 205-158-62-67.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.67]:11910 "EHLO spf13.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263214AbTJaLVT (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:21:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20031031112118.32444.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" To: mario.Ohnewald@gmx.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:21:18 +0800 Subject: Re: Swap usage X-Originating-Ip: 62.101.98.215 X-Originating-Server: ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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 -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze