* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello, all. > > I was building a web-browsable directory of constructivist and post- > constructivist art, and when I was done mucking about, I noticed that > gkrellm was reporting that swap was about 40% used. To my dismay, > closing the GIMP and Netscape did not free any swap. Can I assume that > NS had consumed this swap building it's image cache prior to display? > I don't know what else to attribute this to. > > The relevant snippet from the o/p of top: > > 52 processes: 51 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 1.4% user, 0.4% system, 0.0% nice, 98.2% idle > Mem: 256372K total, 92544K used, 163828K free, 1228K buffers > Swap: 131032K total, 60292K used, 70740K free, 50068K cached > > I thought the swap issues had finally been licked in this release of the > kernel.(?) Back to 2.2.x for this production box, I suppose? :( > > Is there still a constraint for a minimum swap size relative to physical > memory with 2.4.x kernels? Unfortunately, I won't be able to enlarge > the swap partition on this box until moving to a different HDD sometime.
AFAIK they've improved VM a lot in 2.4.10, but I don't think it's totally problem-free. I don't know if you'll get an OOM with your settings -- I added enough swap to my boxen at around 2.4.5 and I haven't had an OOM error since... Maybe you could use something like Partition Magic to shrink your ext2 partition? Dima -- "Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of entities." -- corollary to Occam's Razor
