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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Subject: Re: VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:20:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404ECFE5.7040005@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040303193025.68a16dc4.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
>>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.

Andrew, it looks like you're right.  This[1] server doesn't seem to be 
hitting swap enough.  But my other[2] file server is doing great with it 
on the other hand (though, it hasn't swapped at all).

Maybe a little tuning is in order?

Any patches I should try?

Mike

[1]
http://www.matchmail.com/stats/lrrd/matchmail.com/srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com-memory.html

[2]
http://www.matchmail.com/stats/lrrd/matchmail.com/fileserver.matchmail.com-memory.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-10  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-03  4:15 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 11:32 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 J.A. Magallon
2004-03-03 18:46   ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Adrian Bunk
2004-03-03 16:15 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-03-03 22:33 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2004-03-04  0:52   ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2004-03-04  3:11 ` VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Mike Fedyk
2004-03-04  3:30   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04  3:57     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-10  8:20     ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2004-03-10  8:36       ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-10 18:57         ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-10 23:51           ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-11  0:17             ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-11  0:25               ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-05 17:54 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm[12] - dm_any_congested issues Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-06  3:09   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg

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