Messages in this thread | | | From | Ken Pizzini <> | Subject | Re: Massive pagefaults...anything to worry about? | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 1999 02:50:40 -0700 |
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On linux-kernel, message <19990822171643.A31248@storm.local>, Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de> wrote: >On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 09:42:59PM -0500, Robert A. Hayden wrote: >> I have a new RH6.0 system and everythng seems to be working great on it, >> but I am getting a thing that is causing me a little concern and I want to >> see if it is anything to be worried about. > >This is nothing to be worried about. Pagefaults are a normal tool of >execution for a virtual memory OS. Usually memory mappings are set up >without the contents being usable yet or being swapped out. ... >> [/usr/src/linux] # time make -j 2 >> 261.12user 19.01system 2:27.53elapsed 189%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k >> 0inputs+0outputs (1538887856major+-51006598minor)pagefaults 0swaps > >This is fine, except that the signed variables in your time executable >overflow so that you see negative numbers.
Yes, page faults are perfectly normal... but 1.5 billion major page faults in 2.5 minutes? Surely that can't be right?
--Ken Pizzini
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