From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:21:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:20:51 -0400 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:48299 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:20:39 -0400 X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information: mail nil From: Christoph Rohland To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Alan Cox , Vincent Stemen , Jacky Liu , Subject: Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason In-Reply-To: Organisation: SAP LinuxLab In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Date: 13 May 2001 20:16:30 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SAP: out X-SAP: out X-SAP: out X-SAP: out X-SAP: out Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Mike, On Sat, 12 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Why do I not see this behavior with a heavy swap throughput test > load? It seems decidedly odd to me that swapspace should remain > allocated on other folks lightly loaded boxen given that my heavily > loaded box does release swapspace quite regularly. What am I > missing? Are you using a database or something other which mostly uses shared mem/tmpfs? This does reclaim swap space on swap in. Greetings Christoph