Re: VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2

Mike Fedyk
2004-03-04T03:58:06Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/
>>>
>>>- More VM tweaks and tuneups
>>
>>Running 2.6.3-lofft-snsus-264rc1mm2vm (nfsd loff_t, sunrpc locking & -mm
>>VM patches). Seems to be working well.
>
>
> OK, good.
>
>
>>Most of the previous 2.6 kernels I was running on these servers would be
>>lightly hitting swap by now. This definitely looks better to me.
>
>
> It sounds worse to me. "Lightly hitting swap" is good. It gets rid of stuff,
> freeing up physical memory.

Swapping out is good to me. It's the swapping in, and out, and in,
and... that's bad.

>
> But I do not see a lot of difference here.

Let's let it run a few more days to make sure.

> The 900MB desktop machine is
> 300M into swap after 24 hours. That's usual.

Neither of my servers have 900MB ram...

Mike