Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?
* Geoffrey Romer (gromer@hmc.edu) spake thusly:
> My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never seems
> to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out,
> the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the notion
> of rebooting a system to fix a problem is giving me Windows flashbacks...)
>
> I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading
> to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all?
I've not monitored swap usage since upgrading to 2.4.6 so I cannot answer
that.
If not, are there any other
> workarounds?
How much swap & RAM do you have? I've heard (on kernel mailing list IIRC)
that if your swap is 2-3 * RAM size, the bug shouldn't hurt anything. I've
less swap then RAM here, and I get out of memory errors after about 2 weeks
uptime.
AFAIK known workarounds are to have plenty of swap or to reboot the box
every once in a while.
Dima
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