Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754563AbYKHRqa (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 12:46:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751183AbYKHRqV (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 12:46:21 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:52036 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751142AbYKHRqU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 12:46:20 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rUlDjvW/3pbAMzuD92zvExGPoMrzN/Hgf++vt+R1r9UHycQlk5Z0H9tmet//iWDRdZ Crwi2+9RxHAmqTtwB9xm3k+YfX77a9id38b9SsbM9J6pCtF14BwP+/rNpWw2JgPZr0S5 dSRTEZ7ODUTfZ3nqe2vwwIs1QmRAZEC1bPnoc= Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:46:25 +0100 From: dcg To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: swappiness in 2.6.28-rc3? Message-ID: <20081108184625.6a64a518@diego-desktop> In-Reply-To: <200811081211.24000.gene.heskett@gmail.com> References: <200811081211.24000.gene.heskett@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 20 El Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:11:23 -0500, Gene Heskett escribió: > Greetings; > > I have 2.6.28-rc3 with a 5 day uptime, and I have had to do a "swapoff -a; > swapon -a" almost daily to clear the swap. > > This is about 18 hours since I last did that: > Mem: 4151132k total, 2891180k used, 1259952k free, 281224k buffers > Swap: 2048276k total, 85864k used, 1962412k free, 2078404k cached > > I don't recall having to do this with 2.6.27 or any of its -rc's. I've also noticed more swappiness (very probably due to the vm scanning rework), but I can't say for sure if it's a bad thing... -- 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/