Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Over used cache memory? | From | Gianni Tedesco <> | Date | Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:14:32 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:40, jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: > If anyone has any ideas about this, I would love to hear them.
cat /proc/pid/maps of app in question....
most likely it's copying a fsck load of that file in to anonymous mappings, causing swapping.
If it has a 2GB anonymous mapping and 1GB physical memory, swap will happen on 1 in 2 pages that that program tries to access, on average.
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