On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 at 12:43, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> That behaviour is consistent with linux 2.4 kernels. I remember
> reading about that same complaint you have, and the only answer to
> that was the VM layer of the kernel is much more aggressive wrt taking
> out pages in memory that are seldom accessed, so you've got used swap
> areas.
Been reading the links to kernel-traffic and somehow I'm getting a wee bit
enlightened about this behaviour.
> The AC series of alan is trying to address that but to date, there
> seems to be no other recourse but to drop down to 2.2 or (urk!) 2.0
> which does not swap out that aggressively.
Nah. I depend on 2.4 too much: XFS, USB, et al. I found a neat-o solution,
though. "swapoff -a". Hahaha!!! Now I constantly watch my free memory and
make sure I have decent free memory (as per phpSysInfo which excludes
buffer/cache). And maybe I should go get another 512MB. But if and when
things go wrong, I can always do a "swapon -a" anyway. :)
--> Jijo
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