Re: How do I make this thing stop laging? Reboot? Sounds like Windows!

[Joe <joe@lexus.com>]

Karl Vogel wrote:

>On 18 Jun 2003, you wrote in linux.kernel:
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>>rmoser wrote:
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>>>Ten minutes later I get the brains to run top.  It seems I have about
>>>50 MB in swap, and 54 MB free memory.  So I wait ten minutes more.
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>>>No change.
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>>>% swapoff -a; swapon -a
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>>>Fixes all my problems.
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>>>Now this long story shows something:  The kernel appears to be unable
>>>to intelligently pull swap back into RAM.  What gives?
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>>Because the problem _is_ unsolvable.  You want the kernel
>>to go "oh, lots of free memory showed up, lets pull
>>everything in from swap just in case someone might need it."
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>You might want to try Con Kolivas' patches on:
>   http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
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Unfortunately he provided no information as to
what kernel and/or distro he is running - for all
we know he's running 2.4.9 - so the con man's
patches probably won't apply.

Joe

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