On Wed, Jan 26 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is my current situtation: > > > > ... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/axboe $ cat /proc/meminfo > > MemTotal: 1024992 kB > > MemFree: 9768 kB > > Buffers: 76664 kB > > Cached: 328024 kB > > SwapCached: 0 kB > > Active: 534956 kB > > Inactive: 224060 kB > > HighTotal: 0 kB > > HighFree: 0 kB > > LowTotal: 1024992 kB > > LowFree: 9768 kB > > SwapTotal: 0 kB > > SwapFree: 0 kB > > Dirty: 1400 kB > > Writeback: 0 kB > > Mapped: 464232 kB > > Slab: 225864 kB > > CommitLimit: 512496 kB > > Committed_AS: 773844 kB > > PageTables: 8004 kB > > VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB > > VmallocUsed: 644 kB > > VmallocChunk: 34359737167 kB > > HugePages_Total: 0 > > HugePages_Free: 0 > > Hugepagesize: 2048 kB > > OK. There's rather a lot of anonymous memory there - 700M on the LRU, 300M > pageache, 400M anon, 200M of slab. You need some swapspace ;)
Just forget to swapon again after the recent fillmem cleanup, I do have 1G of swap usually on as well! > What are the symptoms? Slow to load applications? Lots of paging? Poor > I/O speeds? No paging, it basically never hits swap. Buffered io by itself seems to run at full speed. But application startup seems sluggish. Hard to explain really, but there's a noticable difference to the feel of usage when it has just been force-pruned with fillmem and before. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
