Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:22:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:22:22 -0400 Received: from relay04.esat.net ([193.95.141.42]:36622 "EHLO relay04.esat.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:22:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3CBE8FBB.8080108@palamon.ie> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:19:55 +0100 From: Tony Clarke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: VM Related question 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 I have noticed with my current kernel that after the system is idle for a while, say 10 hours or so, that everything seems to be swapped out to disk. So when I come in the next morning it starts swapping everything like crazy in from disk. Is this a known characteristic of the VM. I seem to remember this with all 2.4 kernels tried to date. Whats the point of swapping out to disk in circumstances like this? Currently I am using 2.4.18-rc2-ac2, with apps like mozilla, dozen xterms, xemacs, staroffice etc. Cheers, Tony. - 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/