Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

Mike Galbraith
2001-05-14T04:37:00Z

On 13 May 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Why do I not see this behavior with a heavy swap throughput test
> > load? It seems decidedly odd to me that swapspace should remain
> > allocated on other folks lightly loaded boxen given that my heavily
> > loaded box does release swapspace quite regularly. What am I
> > missing?
>
> Are you using a database or something other which mostly uses shared
> mem/tmpfs? This does reclaim swap space on swap in.

No, just doing parallel kernel builds.

-Mike