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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:29:34 +0100
From: Ulrich Wiederhold <U.Wiederhold@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: linux-2.4.13 high SWAP
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Hi,
* Pablo Ninja <pablo.ninja@uol.com.br> [011030 11:28]:
> I'm just a regular user of sgi xfs on my desktop and I noted It eats up all memory (maybe cos it caches too much). Don't know if it matters but have you ever tried to umount/mount these partitions ?
> 
No problems here with sgi xfs on a lvm-volume and 2.4.13, 192MB RAM,
K6-2/400.

Uli

> 
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:49:56 -0500
> Robert Scussel <rscuss@omniti.com> wrote:
> 
> > Just thought that I would add our experience.
> > 
> > We have experienced the same kind of swap symptoms described, however we
> > have no mounted tmpfs, or ramfs partitions. We have, in fact,
> > experienced the same symptoms on the 2.4.2,2.4.5,2.4.7 and 2.4.12
> > kernel, haven't yet tried the 2.4.13 kernel.  The symptoms include hung
> > processes which can not be killed, system cannot right to disk, and
> > files accessed during this time are filled with binary zeros.  As sync
> > does not work as well, the only resolution is to do a reboot -f -n.
> > 
> > All systems are comprised of exclusively SGI XFS partitions, with dual
> > pentium II/III processors.
> > 
> > Any insight would be helpful,
> > 
> > Robert Scussel
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