Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760085AbWLCUqg (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:46:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757961AbWLCUqf (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:46:35 -0500 Received: from gockel.physik3.uni-rostock.de ([139.30.44.16]:13853 "EHLO gockel.physik3.uni-rostock.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760085AbWLCUqf (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:46:35 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 21:46:33 +0100 (CET) From: Tim Schmielau To: Aucoin cc: "'Andrew Morton'" , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com Subject: RE: la la la la ... swappiness In-Reply-To: <200612031540.kB3FeiQI028507@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com> Message-ID: References: <200612031540.kB3FeiQI028507@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.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: 883 Lines: 23 On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Aucoin wrote: > during tar extraction ... inactive pages reaches levels as high as ~375000 So why do you want the system to swap _less_? You need to find some free memory for the additional processes to run in, and you have lots of inactive pages, so I think you want to swap out _more_ pages. I'd suggest to temporarily add a swapfile before you update your system. This can even help in bringing your memory use to the state before if you do it like this - swapon additional swapfile - update your database software - swapoff swap partition - swapon swap partition - swapoff additional swapfile Tim - 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/