Re: severe slowdown with 2.4 series w/heavy disk access

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:58:22 +0000 (GMT)


> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 417472 412192 5280 0 20632
> 315680

Thyose values dont show any problems. In fact your machine seems to think it
had a ton of free memory to waste and has let it fill up with stuff that has
been accessed - just on the chance that it may be reused.

It hasn't even felt enough memory pressure to start swapping. When you
say it "becomes slow", what precisely becomes slow ?

Also what disks do you have and how are they set up ?
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