On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:22 +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote: > > > Is this sort of usage normal? Filling a gigabyte of swap space while > > just under 1.5GB of memory is going towards buffers seems odd to me. And > > vmstat reports no usage of this swap space over a 15 minute period. > > Just trust it. It knows what it's doing. Better minds than ours have > worked long and hard on this and they're pretty good add it. Swap not > getting hit in 15 minutes sounds like it's doing the right thing.
Oh, there's absolutely no plans to fiddle with it. But it's a pattern that I've never seen before, and I'm curious about how the memory is being used. And, given the uptime on the machine in question (250 days so far), I'm mildly concerned about very slow memory leaks in the web application it's running. > Unless you have some really weird requirements, you should be able to > leave it be. If you do wanna tweak/learn: > http://linux-mm.org/ Ooo, looks like a pretty good resource. Thanks for the link. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
