Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754062AbZGAIIu (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:08:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753236AbZGAIIg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:08:36 -0400 Received: from mail.opencsw.org ([147.87.98.73]:61385 "EHLO mail.opencsw.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752263AbZGAIIf (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:08:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:08:34 +0200 From: Attila Kinali To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Long lasting MM bug when swap is smaller than RAM Message-Id: <20090701100834.1f740ad5.attila@kinali.ch> In-Reply-To: <20090701100432.2d328e46.attila@kinali.ch> References: <20090630115819.38b40ba4.attila@kinali.ch> <4A4ABD8F.40907@gmail.com> <20090701100432.2d328e46.attila@kinali.ch> Organization: GEHIRN X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 24 On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:04:32 +0200 Attila Kinali wrote: > > But > > swapping does not only occur if memory is running low. If disk usage is > > high then non-recently used data may be swapped out to make more room > > for disk caching. > > Hmm..I didn't know this.. thanks! This was the cause of the problem! I just restarted svnserv, clamav and bind (the three applications using most memory) and suddenly swap cleared up. Now the question is, why did they accumulate so much used swap space, while before the RAM upgrade, we hardly used the swap space at all? Attila Kinali -- 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/