Re: 2.4.21-rc1 VM swaps out too much

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:40:36PM +0200, Rene Rebe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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

You will notice that -aa is better and -rmap is even better still.

I can run badblocks on two drives without very much swapping on 192MB with
-rmap15[aeg]