Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:32:27 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: VM - a plenty of inactive memory |
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Andreas Grimm wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > i know this. But why the kernel locks that memory for a so long time > (2 days now)? Is there a way to enforce the reclaiming? And how can i > find out, which process owns that memory. The problem is, that i can't > accept, that the free memory fell down to 50MB, when i have 24GB in > the nirvana. The system was recently very close to the awkward > situation to swap to disk, and i bet it will do so in the next few > days, because it happened before. Unintelligible, if one got that much > ram. > > Bye, Andreas
The memory should not be locked. If the kernel has no reason to reclaim the memory, it won't, though.
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