2.5.68 is much smoother, quite less swap is used, my editors are not
pulled out of the swap all the time:
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515848 505804 10044 0 92808 173876
-/+ buffers/cache: 239120 276728
Swap: 524624 35612 489012
Linux version 2.5.68 (root@jackson) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 Sun May 4 00:20:13 CEST 2003
20:39:52 up 1 day, 20:17, 2 users, load average: 3.31, 3.36, 3.19
On: Sat, 03 May 2003 21:55:34 +0200 (CEST),
Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> somewhere in the 2.4.21-xx series (currently running -rc1 here) seems
> to be a VM regression, that results in quite hefty swap-outs. The box
> is an Athlon-XP with 512MB RAM, running batched gcc jobs (distribution
> builds taking three days and more...). But the box is used a normal
> workstation, too. My normal desktop programs constantly need to get
> swapped-in - quite annoying. This only start to happen after an uptime
> of a day.
>
> So the CPU:
>
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 6
> model : 6
> model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 4 Processor
> stepping : 2
> cpu MHz : 1460.481
> cache size : 256 KB
>
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 527351808 519213056 8138752 0 88793088 328437760
> Swap: 537214976 184963072 352251904
> MemTotal: 514992 kB
> MemFree: 7948 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 86712 kB
> Cached: 252328 kB
> SwapCached: 68412 kB
> Active: 276828 kB
> Inactive: 177468 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 514992 kB
> LowFree: 7948 kB
> SwapTotal: 524624 kB
> SwapFree: 343996 kB
>
> $ uptime
> 21:52:41 up 4 days, 23:55, 4 users, load average: 2.14, 2.47, 2.32
>
> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.4.21-rc1 (root@jackson) (gcc version 3.2.2) #1 Mon Apr 28 00:36:17 CEST 2003
>
> More data available on request.
>
> - René
- René
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