From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: bee71e@netscape.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: excessive swapping in 2.4.x
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:39:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F694509.60100@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7E768FF1.7BC13987.0005DAE9@netscape.net>
bee71e@netscape.net wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using 2.4.21 and I see an unusually large amount of swapping for relatively low load :
>
>sample vmstat output: (note that the system is almost idle)
>
> procs memory swap io system cpu
>r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
>0 2 0 1850220 10524 9412 703652 3030 1102 3912 1106 1506 1710 1 1 98
>0 2 0 1849188 10572 9388 700568 2780 376 3558 379 1434 1284 1 1 99
>0 5 0 1851576 11668 9404 698228 2999 479 3890 488 1499 1487 1 1 98
>
>Is this a known issue? Whats happening? How do I fix this?
>
You could try the latest 2.4 prerelease. It has some VM updates.
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2003-09-18 1:07 excessive swapping in 2.4.x bee71e
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