Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:31:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:31:48 -0500 Received: from jester.ti.com ([192.94.94.1]:50126 "EHLO jester.ti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:31:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3C386DC9.307@ti.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:31:21 +0100 From: christian e Organization: Texas Instruments A/S,Denmark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011202 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux kernel Subject: swapping,any updates ?? Just wasted money on mem upgrade performance still suck :-( Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi,all You might remember I had issues with massive swapping and wanted to know whether I can control the amount of cache and buffers and so on.Well I thought a mem upgrade would do the trick ,but no :-( Not easy to explain to my boss that it still crawls with 512 MB mem and that's the max limit in this laptop..Anyone found any solutions ?? Check this out: top -bn 1|head -n 30 16:25:46 up 2:56, 4 users, load average: 0.50, 0.46, 0.43 79 processes: 77 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 9.8% user, 8.5% system, 0.0% nice, 81.7% idle Mem: 513692K total, 512072K used, 1620K free, 21564K buffers Swap: 248968K total, 60180K used, 188788K free, 323668K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 950 ce 14 0 150M 150M 149M R 18.2 29.9 13:01 vmware 1146 ce 17 0 1000 996 772 R 7.3 0.1 0:00 top 952 ce 9 0 42572 9528 8268 S 0.9 1.8 0:12 vmware-mks 1 root 8 0 524 480 460 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapm-idled 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated 69 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd 92 daemon 9 0 464 380 380 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap 218 root 9 0 648 596 528 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 syslogd 221 root 9 0 1192 460 460 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd 242 root 8 0 676 520 520 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 cardmgr 248 root 9 0 728 620 620 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 rpc.statd 251 root 8 0 512 508 496 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 apmd 262 root 9 0 556 484 484 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 inetd 307 root 9 0 1192 968 856 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nmbd 309 root 9 0 1168 812 812 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 smbd 316 root 9 0 1240 1028 1028 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 sshd it just caches like crazy and things start to crawl cause its swapping.More than 300 MB of cache what on earth is being cached ?? I can't stand ths anymore I guess I'll have to back down to 2.2 again,but that'll have other downsides :-( *sigh* I'm willing to help as much as I can with this I don't want to give up on Linux just like that. best regards Christian - 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/