From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 06:29:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 06:29:21 -0400 Received: from zape.um.es ([155.54.0.102]:26261 "EHLO zape.um.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 06:29:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB1AF9B.745F90FE@ditec.um.es> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:36:11 +0200 From: Juan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [es] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6 i686) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti CC: kernel list Subject: Re: Bad, bad, bad VM behaviour in 2.4.10 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcelo Tosatti escribió: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Juan wrote: > > > Marcelo Tosatti escribió: > > > > > > Juan, > > > > > > It is a known problem which we are looking into. > > > > > > I need some information which may help confirm a guess of mine: > > > > > > Do you have swap available ? > > Yes, the /dev/hda6 partition, that is 257000 KB in size. > > > > > > > > If so, there was available anonymous memory to be swapped out ? > > > > Anonymous memory? Sorry, but I do not understand this question. Could > > you redo it? > > By anynomymous memory I mean memory which is not disk cache (ie is not > data which is going to be written to the filesystem): Program data. Well, every program has data that can be swapped out. Perhaps, you want to know if I run programs which allocate big chunks of memory. No. I run X-Windows+KDE2+XMMS+something else (sendmail, named, gpm). You can see which programs were killed by the VM system in my first e-mail. -- D. Juan Piernas Cánovas Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN) Tel.: +34968367657 Fax: +34968364151 email: piernas@ditec.um.es PGP public key: http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?search=piernas%40ditec.um.es&op=index