Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:25:49 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Ahmed Al-Hindawi <civilized_tafeely@hotmail.com> Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <3F25164D.6030209@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <Law14-F97JswFCHOzyf0000896a@hotmail.com> References: <Law14-F97JswFCHOzyf0000896a@hotmail.com>
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Ahmed Al-Hindawi wrote:
>> If your system is spending a lot of time moving data to and from swap
>> when it is not memory-starved, or if it is stalling memory allocations
>> that it should be able to fulfill from free RAM, that's a concern.
>
>
> That is exactly it. I emphaises th words " when it is not memory-starved
> ". It isn't memory starved.
>
> Also I get 150Mb frequently of swap disk space, whilst still having a
> complete third of my memory free!!
>
> I can understand everyones view on this, that the swap algorithim is
> swaping pre-emtively. But 150MB?? Is that what is called a low level of
> swaping??
From the set of applications you listed, 150 MB doesn't even sound all
that much. 300MB-400MB is the footprint I'd expect for that.
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