On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:52:18PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote:
> Kernels before 2.4.7 had a bug in the swap code, leading to the
> behaviour you described. 2.4.7 is better, but apparently it doesn't
> fix things completely.
>
> Try upgrading to 2.4.8.
Thanks for the info and your suggestion, but it doesn't seem to change
things. I have noticed under 2.4.8 that in-use swap space doesn't grow as
rapidly as 2.4.7, but the problem persists. Perhaps I should take this up
with the linux-kernel list?
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127404 101068 26336 0 2104 37688
-/+ buffers/cache: 61276 66128
Swap: 262136 61892 200244
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/swap file 262136 61892 5
# swapoff /swap
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127404 116096 11308 0 2112 37696
-/+ buffers/cache: 76288 51116
Swap: 0 0 0
# uname -a
Linux hork 2.4.8 #8 Mon Aug 13 19:31:09 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
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