On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Hugh Dickins uttered the following: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Nix wrote: >> Filename Type Size Used Priority >> /dev/sda2 partition 523016 0 1 >> /dev/sda4 partition 511232 57648 2 >> /dev/sdb2 partition 523016 0 1 >> >> Is the problem that the higher-priority kicking out to swap which should >> happen when memory is tight, won't? > > I had thought that it was any kicking out to swap - apart from kicking > tmpfs/shmem pages to swap, which should happen independently of Mapped. > > If you're not using tmpfs or shmem, then I'm surprised by that figure.
Oh. Yes, tmpfs might just about explain it: 58320 /tmp So it looks like I have a swap-free box for a time. I guess I'd better be careful... :) > There was 88 kB out to swap in your original /proc/meminfo, which we > may suppose was before Mapped went negative; but above shows more since. Yes, I expect so. It must've gone negative really rather early: and note that it's some distance below 2^64 by now, so it's still falling. If I wait for a billion years or so it might wrap around. :) -- `Blish is clearly in love with language. Unfortunately, language dislikes him intensely.' --- Russ Allbery - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
