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From: Tony Clarke <sam@palamon.ie>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: VM Related question
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:19:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CBE8FBB.8080108@palamon.ie> (raw)


I have noticed with my current kernel that after the system is idle for 
a while, say 10 hours or
so, that everything seems to be swapped out to disk. So when I come in 
the next morning
it starts swapping everything like crazy in from disk. Is this a known 
characteristic of the
VM. I seem to remember this with all 2.4 kernels tried to date.

Whats the point of swapping out to disk in circumstances like this?

Currently I am using 2.4.18-rc2-ac2, with apps like mozilla, dozen 
xterms, xemacs, staroffice etc.

Cheers,
Tony.


             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-18  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-18  9:19 Tony Clarke [this message]
2002-04-18 12:46 ` VM Related question Helge Hafting
2002-04-18 15:05   ` Tony Clarke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-18 17:35 Torrey Hoffman

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