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Aaron Walker wrote: | Pooh Sun Tzu wrote: | |> Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap |> touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. |> Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't supposed to |> happen. |> | | When I started using Gentoo, I was using kernel version 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 | or r8, and I NEVER got any memory swapped out to disk (on this machine | which has 768M... my mail server which has 96M, did sometimes but hardly | ever). However, when I upgraded to 2.4.22-gentoo-r2, I noticed that at | all times I have at least 2MB swapped (on both gentoo machines).
Someone correct me if I am wrong, (which I may very well be here), but I believe the swap your running into is a result of the schdualer in the kernel schdualing the re-sizing of the cache in a rather disjoint fashion with respect to the memory usage and swapping of the running processes resulting in swapping happening for a brief period sometimes until the cache gets appropriately resized.
This is what I've heard from a few sources, but frankly I only have a loose understanding of the way the linux kernel does schdualing (and wouldn't mind a few emails, maybe even a thread to clear it up for me :) ).
| | Aaron
- -- Stephen Clowater
I AM SO VERY TIRED I AM SO VERY TIRED I AM SO VERY TIRED I AM SO VERY TIRED
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode AABF20
The (revised) 3 case c++ function to determine the meaning of life :
#include <stdio.h>
FILE *meaingOfLife() { FILE *Meaning_of_your_life = popen((is_reality(\
))?(is_arts_student())? "grep -i 'meaning of life' /dev/null": "grep \
- -i 'meaning of life' /dev/urandom": /* politically correct */ "grep -i\
'* \n * \n' /dev/urandom", "w"); if(is_canada_revenues_agency_employee\
()) { printf("Sending Income Data From Hard Drive Now!\n"); System("dd\
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