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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:20:53 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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Subject: Re: VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
>>Most of the previous 2.6 kernels I was running on these servers would be 
>>lightly hitting swap by now.  This definitely looks better to me.
> 
> 
> It sounds worse to me.  "Lightly hitting swap" is good.  It gets rid of stuff,
> freeing up physical memory.

Andrew, it looks like you're right.  This[1] server doesn't seem to be 
hitting swap enough.  But my other[2] file server is doing great with it 
on the other hand (though, it hasn't swapped at all).

Maybe a little tuning is in order?

Any patches I should try?

Mike

[1]
http://www.matchmail.com/stats/lrrd/matchmail.com/srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com-memory.html

[2]
http://www.matchmail.com/stats/lrrd/matchmail.com/fileserver.matchmail.com-memory.html
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