Subject: Re: severe slowdown with 2.4 series w/heavy disk access
To: pboley@home.com (Paul Boley)
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:58:22 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3C295D5C.50EE365D@home.com> from "Paul Boley" at Dec 26, 2001 12:17:16 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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>              total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
> Mem:        417472     412192       5280          0      20632
> 315680

Thyose values dont show any problems. In fact your machine seems to think it
had a ton of free memory to waste and has let it fill up with stuff that has
been accessed - just on the chance that it may be reused.

It hasn't even felt enough memory pressure to start swapping. When you 
say it "becomes slow", what precisely becomes slow ?

Also what disks do you have and how are they set up ?
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