From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA29765 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:05:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:06:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Rising io_load results Re: 2.5.63-mm1 Message-Id: <20030228000634.6d23a30c.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <200302280846.04002.baldrick@wanadoo.fr> References: <20030227025900.1205425a.akpm@digeo.com> <20030227160656.40ebeb93.akpm@digeo.com> <200302281128.06840.kernel@kolivas.org> <200302280846.04002.baldrick@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Duncan Sands Cc: kernel@kolivas.org, dmccr@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Duncan Sands wrote: > > Hi Con, are you sure this is not the same for 2.5.63? > I left 2.5.63 running over night (doing nothing but run > KDE), and in the morning it was swapping heavily. > About 200MB was swapped out and this did not reduce > with usage. According to top, 10% of memory was being > used by a Konsole with nothing in it (could be a memory > leak in Konsole). After half an hour I gave up - it was > too unusable. Maybe -mm1 just accentuates a problem > that is already there in 2.5.63. > Please take a snapshot of /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo if anything like this happens. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org