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From: "André Dahlqvist" <anedah-9@sm.luth.se>
To: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:10:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010529001003.A320@sm.luth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105281636160.1261-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> <20010528234225.A4362@sm.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <20010528234225.A4362@sm.luth.se>

André Dahlqvist <anedah-9@sm.luth.se> wrote:

> I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess
> might be part of the reason for the slowdown.

Following up on myself, here are some numbers:

Freshly booted 2.4.4 with X and Mozilla running, 'free' outputs this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         62716      61280       1436          0       1820      28704
-/+ buffers/cache:      30756      31960
Swap:       160608          0     160608

Freshly booted 2.4.5-ac2 with X and Mozilla running, 'free' outputs this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         62784      61784       1000        380       1824      35748
-/+ buffers/cache:      24212      38572
Swap:       160608       7128     153480

After running 2.4.5-ac2 (and other kernels after vanilla 2.4.4) for a while
the swap usage grows a lot, to around 60 MB. Older kernels didn't swap out
this aggressively in my experience.

This is on a 233 Mhz box with 64 megs of RAM.
-- 

André Dahlqvist <anedah-9@sm.luth.se>

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-28 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-28 15:19 Linux 2.4.5-ac2 Leeuw van der, Tim
2001-05-28 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-28 20:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-28 19:38   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-28 21:42     ` André Dahlqvist
2001-05-28 22:10       ` André Dahlqvist [this message]
2001-05-28 21:15         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-28 23:44           ` André Dahlqvist
2001-05-29  4:57     ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-29  7:47 ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-05-29 10:19   ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-29 23:55     ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-05-30  9:29       ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-28  0:33 Alan Cox
2001-05-28  3:38 ` Tom Vier
2001-05-28  5:32   ` Tom Vier
2001-05-28  3:44 ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-05-28 13:37   ` Alan Cox

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