Re: VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2

Mike Fedyk
2004-03-10T08:21:23Z

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]