Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:32:03 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.46-mm1 with contest |
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Alan Willis wrote: > > > That's an awful lot of mapped memory. Have you been altering > > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness? Has some application run berzerk > > and used tons of memory? > > > > Slab: 7592 kB > > Committed_AS: 423120 kB > > PageTables: 1996 kB > > ReverseMaps: 69425 > > HugePages_Total: 15 > > HugePages_Free: 15 > > Hugepagesize: 4096 kB > > vm.swappiness was set to 0
OK ;)
That sucker really works. I run my desktop machines (768M and 256M) at swappiness=80% or 90%. I end up with 10-20 megs in swap after a day or two, which seems about right. The default of 60 is probably a little too unswappy.
> I'll stick to 2.5.46 for a while yet I guess, to be sure.
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