-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jaimon, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
I really suspect a VM bug here. Why is it using swap even when there is no memory pressure and swappiness is set to zero?
lenz@metis:~> uptime 10:26am up 1 day 0:21, 8 users, load average: 0.40, 0.73, 0.98 lenz@metis:~> cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 0 lenz@metis:~> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1035332 1020224 15108 0 150936 222276 -/+ buffers/cache: 647012 388320 Swap: 1253028 349804 903224
Note that this is just about 2:30 hours after I did a "swapoff -a ; swapon -a" this morning (in the attempt to move the swapped out pages back into memory).
The system again started to swap heavily and more and more memory appeared as "free" during the course of the day. I was able to regain control by termination several apps (Firefox, OOo, Thunderbird) and disabling swap temporarily (to force the VM to swap in all pages again), but this is becoming a major annoyance. I wonder if I am the only one experiencing this? Any idea why it ignores the swappiness setting? Or why the VM decides to start swapping in the first place, if there is plenty of free memory? I'd be happy to assist you in finding the cause of this, just let me know what other info you would need or what info to watch. Thanks! Bye, LenZ - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer <lenz@grimmer.com> -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: LenZGr@jabber.org] /\\ http://www.lenzg.org/ V_V -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHRGMsSVDhKrJykfIRApg3AJ4yCQl8DU/Q79Z7WHGRQG1/boqYsACeKOTc UvKuI2shIzr22aYCAZfq2bQ= =DZch -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org