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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 19:43:17 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: khromy <khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx>
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Subject: Re: Exaggerated swap usage
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:23:45PM -0500, khromy wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:49:10AM +0100, Javier Marcet wrote:
> > * khromy <khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx> [021130 07:33]:
> > 
> > >BTW, I'm running 2.4.20-rc4-ac1+preempt and it seems to run good but
> > >whenever I leave for a few hours or wake up in the morning mozilla is
> > >swaped out.. Any idea when/how this might be fixed?
> > 
> > I have the problem without leaving it a few hours, but when I do it gets
> > definitely worse. Last vmstat output I quoted here showed around 256MB
> > swapped. A few hours later - the computer had been sitting idle, only
> > the mail server for three users was running which poses no overhead at
> > all -, the entire 512MB SWAP space was used. Why, I don't know.
> > 
> > I'm about to try 2.4.20-jam0, -aa derived. I'll post results from that
> > kernel later.
> 
> aa runs beautifully but it locked up once on me..

send me SYSRQ+T SYSRQ+P and everything else you know about it. if you
have AGP enabled try to reproduce with 10_x86-fast-pte-2 backed out.
thanks,

Andrea
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