On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 13:13, Paul Sargent wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:09:35PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote: > > The Linux VM prefers to swap stuff out, instead of clearing the cache. > > Lot's of stuff can safely be swapped out, > > Agreed, sleeping processes and such like. That's why the idle state of 140MB > swapped out doesn't bother me. > It might be normal, but it's crucifying performance in this case. Also, try asking on the kernel list (or maybe to the VM maintainers) This isn't really debian specific, and they know a lot more about that then people here do :) -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 hosts: Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.com|net|org|nl SyConOS.com|nl
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