God... I need to learn how to type... typos fixed below. Herman Knief wrote:
Why the hell is everyone so concerned about the use of some swap space? Is the computer thrashing the disk? Has performance dropped to an unbearable level? Just because the system reports that some swap has been used or allocated, does not mean that the swap space is active - Have you looked at vmstat? Like many things on Linux, once a resource is allocated, it is not free'd... it just remains allocated. If the system was thrashing the disk, then I would say there was some cause for concern. Quite frankly, with the VM that was used from 2.4.0 to 2.4.9, I was always a bit concerned about the apparent lack of swap use, as once the real memory was consumed the system would become unuseable as it thrashed to try and find resources. The OOM Killer is a great concept.. unfortunately, it doesn't work. I personally, much prefer the model of 2.2.x, unfortunately I need some of the features of 2.4, so I welcome the VM rework that has been done in 2.4.10, and from the testing I've done on heavily used NFS servers, it is much more stable... even if it does claim some swap has been used with free memory left. Of course this is just my opinion...
-Herman
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Do we have an ETA on the fixes for the VM problem that was said to be fixed in 2.4.14pre6.. I just watched 38M of swap get eaten for no apparent reason?
Thanks.
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