From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Dan Merillat <dan.merillat@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.31 - very swap-happy with plenty of free RAM
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:54:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0DDFDA.1030905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0c067900911251513v48a34b18k73fb48f0e8d43c30@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/25/2009 06:13 PM, Dan Merillat wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Umm, very strange.
>> I made two debug patch. can you please apply it and post following
>> command output?
>>
>> % cat /proc/meminfo
>> % cat /proc/vmstat
>> % cat /proc/zoneinfo
>> # cat /proc/filecache | sort -nr -k3 |head -30
>>
> As I said I can't give you the filecache info, but here's two datasets
>
> The amount of cache is due to 1.5gb of mmaped vmware guest backing files.
>
> First, 400mb ram "free" but still swapping out - usable with a few
> pauses as apps swap back in.
>
>
Can you try out the patch from
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/25/467 ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-26 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-05 1:16 complete IO hang since a few kernel revision Norbert Preining
2009-10-05 2:57 ` Ulrich Lukas
2009-10-05 8:33 ` Norbert Preining
2009-10-06 2:00 ` Robert Hancock
2009-10-06 2:05 ` Norbert Preining
2009-10-06 7:11 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-06 7:16 ` Norbert Preining
2009-10-06 7:44 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-10 19:06 ` Petr Titěra
2009-11-18 7:56 ` Linux 2.6.31 - very swap-happy with plenty of free RAM Dan Merillat
2009-11-18 15:22 ` Rik van Riel
2009-11-18 15:48 ` Norbert Preining
2009-11-19 14:36 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-25 23:13 ` Dan Merillat
2009-11-26 1:54 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2009-12-03 4:16 ` Dan Merillat
2009-12-07 20:49 ` Dan Merillat
2009-12-09 20:48 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-12-09 21:18 ` Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-18 21:45 Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-11-19 0:40 ` Dan Merillat
2009-11-19 1:09 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2009-11-19 1:38 ` Dave Chinner
2009-11-19 6:43 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-11-23 21:57 ` Dan Merillat
2009-11-27 1:56 ` Bill Davidsen
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