Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264982AbUFALTb (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:19:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264983AbUFALTa (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:19:30 -0400 Received: from c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au ([136.186.1.30]:55052 "EHLO swin.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264982AbUFALT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:19:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:19:25 +1000 (EST) From: Tim Connors X-X-Sender: tconnors@tellurium.ssi.swin.edu.au To: William Lee Irwin III cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: why swap at all? In-Reply-To: <20040601102448.GL2093@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: References: <200405312029.i4VKTCZ0000596@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20040601102448.GL2093@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1465 Lines: 30 On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:13:59PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > Incidentally, what happens when kswapd becomes a zombie? I've seen > > this a few times, and I am currently posting on a machine that has > > been up for 15 days, and which oopsed 10 or so days ago (something to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > do with nfs, but don't worry about that - the machine is running > > 2.4.20, and is not exactly up-to-date), killing kswapd. > > But I don't notice anything at all different about how the system is > > behaving. However, I haven't been doing much more than running emacs > > and mozilla recently - I haven't been running my visualisation > > software that typically stresses the VM beyond usefullness. > > Check your syslog for oopsen. That's the only known reason for kswapd > to become a zombie. What ill effects are meant to happen? I haven't noticed anything ill about the machine at all. No OOMs, no 'failed zero order allocation', etc. Swap is currently 508388k used, 543860k free, 175060k cached, mem is 498908k used, 15540k free. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Error: Fuzzy Pointer Exception - 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/