On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:22:16AM -0400, Mikes work account wrote:
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> I have 512,000K of memory and an equal amount of swap space. For some
> reason my RH 2.4.9-31 kernel seems to be mismanageing my swap space. It
> seems to grow and never shrink and as it does my load average goes out the
> roof. If I reboot the server then the system will settle down and operate
> efficiently (low load average). It also does not need the swap space it was
> using either. This seems like a mismanaged swap issue to me or is there
> something I am not aware of in the setup of this system?
>
As a general rule,
swap = 2 * memory
Not that that's your problem. Just a comment.
Paul
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