From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: excessive swapping
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:10:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040813071044.GA10988@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1092379250.2597.14.camel@rivendell.home.local>
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:40:51PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I am running 2.6.8-rc4 with Ingo's voluntary preempt patch O5, on Fedora
> 2.
> I'm using the default Gnome environment, reading mail with Evolution,
> browsing with Firefox, etc. I've 512MB of RAM.
Please see if you can reproduce this behaviour without any additional
patches. Furthermore, when this has happened, please show the output of cat
/proc/meminfo and cat /proc/slabinfo and your .config.
> The system is swapping excessively. There's no way the total size of the
> applications exceeds the size of RAM. There's plenty of room to spare,
> yet 16% of the 530MB of swap is used.
Please show a few lines of vmstat 1 when this happens.
Thanks!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-13 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-13 6:40 excessive swapping Florin Andrei
2004-08-13 6:44 ` Florin Andrei
2004-08-13 7:10 ` Florin Andrei
2004-08-13 7:24 ` dvd ripping causing: " bert hubert
2004-08-13 9:00 ` Matt Heler
2004-08-13 12:10 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-13 7:10 ` bert hubert [this message]
2004-09-02 6:02 ` Florin Andrei
2004-09-28 15:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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