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From: Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Exaggerated swap usage
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* Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> [021130 02:57]:

>> root # vmstat 1
>> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----c=
pu----
>>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy=
 id wa
>>  0  1 265048   5248  32248 119108    6   15    65    62  252   585 21  6=
 73  0
>>  1  6 266648   4480  32316 120300    0 4656  2152  4652 1348   821 13  8=
 79  0
>>  1  0 265052   4496  31036 120184    8  336  1668   340 1226   765 15  7=
 78  0
>>  0  1 265052   4496  31112 121564    4    0  3152     0 1198   894 18  8=
 74  0
>>  1  0 265052   4504  31076 123112    0    0  3024  8576 1229   857 17  7=
 76  0
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Looks like my guess was right after all.  The amount of swap
>IO is maybe 10% of the amount of filesystem IO in your vmstat
>snippet above.

>Two things could be happening here:

>1) the kernel decides to cache the wrong things in the
>   page cache

>and/or

>2) the IO scheduler is giving worse latencies now

>If the problem is (1) it might get resolved by using the -rmap
>or -aa kernels.  If the problem is (2) you'll want Andrew Morton's
>read_latency patch (which I'll port to 2.4.20 real soon now).

All right. I might be wrong, but this was with kernel 2.4.20-rc4-ac1
Doesn't it include rmap?
Also it was patched with Robert Love's preempt-kernel. Of course I've
tried without it as with various other kernel tidbits.
I always tend to use ac kernels + some other patches which aside from
preempt have nothing to do with system's basic behavior.
Yet the only time I get a good system response is with 2.5.47-ac6
(2.5.48+ drive me nuts with module loading) and with Marc-Christian
Petersen's 2.4.18-wolk which includes nearly everything out there.


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Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>

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