Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:44:12 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <3F21180C.2060904@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <oprst0gcrl8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> References: <000001c3521a$7fa912c0$6bd4bfac@AlHindawi> <3F203931.3030300@potentialtech.com> <oprst0gcrl8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>
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Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>
> Well, the 5.0, old -CURRENT and 4.8 have never touch the swap, until
> 5.1- CURRENT. My system has 256mb ram and it's always touch swap now. If
> I compile some stuff, sometime it will get around 300mb swap. Current, I
> only have Gnome 2.3.x and Opera running, so what my top looks like this:
>
> Mem: 85M Active, 29M Inact, 51M Wired, 4496K Cache, 35M Buf, 73M Free
> Swap: 512M Total, 79M Used, 433M Free, 15% Inuse
>
> But, I will remove the Gnome System Monitor applet, then reboot and see
> how it goes for the whole afternoon.
People, swap is just a backing store for idle data. If you have 79 Mb
that isn't getting used, what would you prefer: to keep it swap-backed
so you can throw the pages out on demand, or *wait* until your system is
heavily loaded to put the pages on the swap?
Anyway, placing data on the swap is not a problem. What is a problem is
what some call "swapping": reading and writing to the swap all the time.
Start a "vmstat 1" and see if pi and po have non-zero values constantly.
If not, then your system is _not_ wasting time writing and reading to
the disk.
(btw, unless you have disk activity, writing data to the swap does not
impact on performance either)
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