why the swapping
Alexander Polakov
polachok at narod.ru
Thu May 18 09:37:22 PDT 2006
On Thu, 18 May 2006 07:33:07 -0400
Tim Middleton <x at vex.net> wrote:
>
> Running 6.0-release, with 2 gig ram. Typical memory stats like this (from
> top):
>
> 626M Active,
> 1045M Inact,
> 204M Wired,
> 75M Cache,
> 112M Buf,
> 22M Free
>
> Under moderately high load i'm seeing a lot of swapping periodically through
> the day (and then load avg going way, way up, of course). I'm wondering why
> is there, with so much inactive memory, so much disk swapping?
>
> The machine runs some fairly intense stuff, such as squid, postgresql, and
> zope; but it seems to me there should be enough RAM to cover all of this
> without swapping. What am I missing? Am i misinterpretting the stats, and
> just not understanding how the vm works?
>
> --
> Tim Middleton | Vex.Net | There is a wisdom that is woe; but there
> x at veX.net | VexTech.ca | is a woe that is madness. --Melville (MD)
>
maybe you have to set
vm.swap_idle_enabled=0
or
vm.swap_enabled=0 ?
--
Best regards. Alexander "polachok" Polakov
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