Le jeudi 10 février 2011 05:59:29 Jeff Siddall, vous avez écrit : >> TOP shows that the disk will start >> using SWAP. I thought that what should happen is that as memory >> demands grow the CPU should move stale data from buffers to disk >> and free more memory for applications and that swapping was >> a sign that it was digging into the disk for VM
> If it is using a moderate amount > of swap it is probably because the kernel decided the system would be > better off removing some rarely used code from RAM instead of removing > cache. As Jeff Sidall said, it's up to the kernel to decide. But that small amount of swap is usually because the kernel moved memory pages that are used only for the application startup. They are never used again. It is better to free the memory for other apps or for disk cache. Xavier [email protected] - 09 54 06 16 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
