From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030513AbWK3PcN (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:32:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030528AbWK3PcM (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:32:12 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:24209 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030513AbWK3PcL (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:32:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:39:06 +0000 From: Alan To: Yaroslav Halchenko Cc: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: kswapd/tg3 issue Message-ID: <20061130153906.59d78223@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20061130151003.GM2021@washoe.onerussian.com> References: <20061130144355.GK2021@washoe.onerussian.com> <20061130150406.3d0b6afd@localhost.localdomain> <20061130151003.GM2021@washoe.onerussian.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:10:03 -0500 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thank you Alan > > Ok - I am adding more memory in my purchasing plan ;-) For now I guess > adding swap space should help, right? Under heavy network or I/O pressure it may not have time to swap to get the memory. Thus adding swap won't usually help. Adding RAM may do but its often not the best answer. Arjan's suggestion should sort it, and - yes typically boxes with very high I/O and network load need more of a pool of memory free for immediate use than other systems.