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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "Rechenberg, Andrew" <ARechenberg@shermanfinancialgroup.com>
Cc: 'Ken Brownfield' <brownfld@irridia.com>,
	"'linux-mm@kvack.org'" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kupdated high load with heavy disk I/O
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:29:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011126162958.O14196@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35F52ABC3317D511A55300D0B73EB8056FCC50@cinshrexc01.shermfin.com>; from ARechenberg@shermanfinancialgroup.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:08:27AM -0500

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:08:27AM -0500, Rechenberg, Andrew wrote:
> Ken,
> 
> The 2.4.15pre7 kernel seems to have fixed my issue with kupdated and 4GB
> RAM.  We did some testing over the weekend and the box was still interactive
> with a load of 7+.  There still seems to be a lot of swapping going on
> though.  I've read from previous threads that 2.4 uses swap more readily
> than 2.2 did, but should it use 10% of my swap and have almost 8MB
> SwapCached?

if it only swapouts at a very slow rate over the time and it never
swapin, then yes it seems sane. You may also give a spin to 2.4.15aa1
that should swap a bit less.

Andrea
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-26 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-26 15:08 Rechenberg, Andrew
2001-11-26 15:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-11-26 23:07 ` Ken Brownfield
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-30 15:13 Rechenberg, Andrew
2001-11-20 22:58 Rechenberg, Andrew
2001-11-14 23:01 Rechenberg, Andrew
2001-11-15  4:30 ` John McCutchan
2001-11-19 16:23   ` Marcelo Tosatti

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