Re: swap and 2.1.128 dev kernel
cfm@maine.com writes:
> I'm having difficulties with swap. Machines with 128Mb RAM are
> 10+Mb into swap, thrashing like crazy, and leaving 30Mb or so
> free RAM. When I swapoff load goes down from 4+ to under .10.
> So I'm running without swap at the moment on those machines....
This sounds like one of the problems I've seen on linux-kernel.
Especially when reading a *lot* of data from files, the kernel pages
too aggressively.
The linux-kernel list is archived at:
http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/
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