Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Oct 2002 02:15:31 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: experiences with 2.5.40 on a busy usenet news server |
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Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > ... > # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1033308 1027316 5992 0 836884 29776 > -/+ buffers/cache: 160656 872652 > Swap: 976888 364032 612856
Please always send /proc/meminfo - it's way more informative.
A vmstat trace is also useful.
> No need to swap 364 MB when there's 872 MB still free... > This makes the machine dogslow. An 'expire' process that > runs every night normally takes 15 minutes to finish now > has been running for 10 hours and its still not finished.
It must be doing a ton of IO?
You'll probably find that 2.5.41-mm1 does not swap at all; but I'd need to see meminfo to know. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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