Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] Network lags

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:12:20AM -0400, Nicholas E. Walker wrote:
> However, this is sort of a misguided idea.  If you have enough memory,
> nothing will get swapped unless something in memory is so unused that it
> would be more efficient to swap it out and use the memory for cache.

That behavior seems to be very dependent on the kernel you are
running.  For example, a Red Hat 2.4.20 kernel seems to really, really
want to swap:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2064704    2053224      11480          0       9432    1212940
-/+ buffers/cache:     830852    1233852
Swap:      4176892    1597508    2579384

I would expect that system to be swapping, but not *nearly* that much.

Steve
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