From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 18:09:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 18:09:45 -0400 Received: from mailb.telia.com ([194.22.194.6]:57869 "EHLO mailb.telia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 18:09:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:10:03 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Dahlqvist To: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2 Message-ID: <20010529001003.A320@sm.luth.se> Mail-Followup-To: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" In-Reply-To: <20010528234225.A4362@sm.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20010528234225.A4362@sm.luth.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Unexpected-Header: The Spanish Inquisition Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org André Dahlqvist 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