Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265330AbTFRQaK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:30:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265335AbTFRQaK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:30:10 -0400 Received: from armitage.toyota.com ([63.87.74.3]:22466 "EHLO armitage.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265330AbTFRQaC (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:30:02 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF096CD.8060407@lexus.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:43:57 -0700 From: Joe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How do I make this thing stop laging? Reboot? Sounds like Windows! References: <200306172030230870.01C9900F@smtp.comcast.net> <3EF0214A.3000103@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1208 Lines: 51 Karl Vogel wrote: >On 18 Jun 2003, you wrote in linux.kernel: > > > >>rmoser wrote: >>[...] >> >> >>>Ten minutes later I get the brains to run top. It seems I have about >>>50 MB in swap, and 54 MB free memory. So I wait ten minutes more. >>> >>>No change. >>> >>>% swapoff -a; swapon -a >>> >>>Fixes all my problems. >>> >>>Now this long story shows something: The kernel appears to be unable >>>to intelligently pull swap back into RAM. What gives? >>> >>> >>> >>Because the problem _is_ unsolvable. You want the kernel >>to go "oh, lots of free memory showed up, lets pull >>everything in from swap just in case someone might need it." >> >> > > >You might want to try Con Kolivas' patches on: > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ > > Unfortunately he provided no information as to what kernel and/or distro he is running - for all we know he's running 2.4.9 - so the con man's patches probably won't apply. Joe > > - 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/