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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Exaggerated swap usage
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:02:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE82A4C.B8332D8E@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.50.0211292103200.26051-100000@montezuma.mastecende.com

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> 
> Hmm i'm using 2.4.19-rmap15

Don't think so.

> 
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  525332480 522969088  2363392        0 10117120 365477888
> Swap: 2154938368 873652224 1281286144
> MemTotal:       513020 kB
> MemFree:          2308 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:          9880 kB
> Cached:         282768 kB
> SwapCached:      74144 kB
> Active:         273452 kB
> Inactive:       194068 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:       513020 kB
> LowFree:          2308 kB
> SwapTotal:     2104432 kB
> SwapFree:      1251256 kB

That's stock 2.4 meminfo output.

-               "Inactive:     %8u kB\n"
+               "Inact_dirty:  %8u kB\n"
+               "Inact_laundry:%8u kB\n"
+               "Inact_clean:  %8u kB\n"
+               "Inact_target: %8lu kB\n"


You're using an extraordinary amount of swap.  Is something leaking?

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-30  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-29 11:54 Exaggerated swap usage Javier Marcet
2002-11-29 12:20 ` Christer Nilsson
2002-11-29 16:31 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-30  1:38   ` Javier Marcet
2002-11-30  1:55     ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-30  2:47       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-30  5:17       ` Javier Marcet
2002-11-30 14:02       ` Exaggerated swap usage && -aa lockup Javier Marcet
2002-11-30  2:42     ` Exaggerated swap usage Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-30  3:02       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-30  4:12         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-30  6:48           ` khromy
2002-11-30  6:49             ` Javier Marcet
2002-11-30  7:08               ` Dmitri
2002-11-30 14:05                 ` Javier Marcet
2002-11-30 18:23               ` khromy
2002-11-30 18:43                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-01  7:39                   ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-01  7:53                   ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-01 10:34                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-01  7:59                   ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-01 10:36                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-01 14:37                       ` Nuno Monteiro
2002-12-02  0:21                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-02  1:01                           ` Nuno Monteiro
2002-12-02  4:55                           ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-02 21:24                           ` Andrew Clayton
2002-11-30 14:05   ` Steffen Moser
2002-11-30 18:22     ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-01  7:57       ` Javier Marcet
2002-12-01 19:27         ` Rik van Riel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-29 15:28 Randal, Phil
2002-11-29 16:28 ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-02 23:59 Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-12-03  0:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-03 10:13   ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-12-03 13:59     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-03 18:43       ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-12-05 23:14         ` Marc-Christian Petersen

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