RE: [SLUG] Swap management

From: Mikes work account (mrock@stewartsigns.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 09:11:49 EDT


The issue right now is that I cannot get a clean mkbootdisk to test before I
reboot into the new kernel.

What I am getting from: mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.9-31smp is:

                                gzip: stdout: No space left on Device

I have been able to get a clean boot disk with one of my other kernels but
not this one. Any ideas?

I hope The swap issue will be fixed as soon as I boot the new kernel.

Michael C. Rock

-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Paul M
Foster
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:17 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Swap management

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:22:16AM -0400, Mikes work account wrote:

>
>
> 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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