Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 05:10:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 05:10:01 -0400 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:32462 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 05:10:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA2A233.88525FE4@digeo.com> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 02:15:31 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.40 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miquel van Smoorenburg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: experiences with 2.5.40 on a busy usenet news server References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Oct 2002 09:15:35.0147 (UTC) FILETIME=[425A43B0:01C26EAB] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 992 Lines: 27 Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > ... > # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1033308 1027316 5992 0 836884 29776 > -/+ buffers/cache: 160656 872652 > Swap: 976888 364032 612856 Please always send /proc/meminfo - it's way more informative. A vmstat trace is also useful. > No need to swap 364 MB when there's 872 MB still free... > This makes the machine dogslow. An 'expire' process that > runs every night normally takes 15 minutes to finish now > has been running for 10 hours and its still not finished. It must be doing a ton of IO? You'll probably find that 2.5.41-mm1 does not swap at all; but I'd need to see meminfo to know. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/