From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>
To: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Over used cache memory?
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:14:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068128072.530.1421.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031106134031.GA2720@ncsu.edu>
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On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:40, jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:
> If anyone has any ideas about this, I would love to hear them.
cat /proc/pid/maps of app in question....
most likely it's copying a fsck load of that file in to anonymous
mappings, causing swapping.
If it has a 2GB anonymous mapping and 1GB physical memory, swap will
happen on 1 in 2 pages that that program tries to access, on average.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-06 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-06 8:05 Over used cache memory? Wee Teck Neo
2003-11-06 8:25 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-06 8:59 ` Jerry Lundström
2003-11-06 9:11 ` Helge Hafting
2003-11-06 13:40 ` jlnance
2003-11-06 14:14 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2003-11-06 21:47 ` jlnance
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2003-11-06 9:15 Wee Teck Neo
2003-11-06 19:07 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-11-06 19:57 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-06 20:50 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
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2003-11-06 9:16 ` Jerry Lundström
2003-11-06 9:33 Wee Teck Neo
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