Re: [SLUG] Swap management

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 11:57:25 EDT


On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 23:17, Paul M Foster wrote:
> 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

Prior to 2.4.10, that wasn't a general rule, but an absolute
requirement.
 
> Not that that's your problem. Just a comment.

Which is what it should be, rather than absolute requirement, and a good
reason the VM got rewritten in 2.4.10...

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