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SubjectRe: Over used cache memory?
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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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// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)
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