linux-kernel - Re: swappiness in 2.6.28-rc3?

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Message-ID: <20081108184625.6a64a518@diego-desktop>
Date:	Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:46:25 +0100
From:	dcg <diegocalleja@...il.com>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swappiness in 2.6.28-rc3?

El Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:11:23 -0500, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com> escribió:

> Greetings;
> 
> I have 2.6.28-rc3 with a 5 day uptime, and I have had to do a "swapoff -a; 
> swapon -a" almost daily to clear the swap.
> 
> This is about 18 hours since I last did that:
> Mem:   4151132k total,  2891180k used,  1259952k free,   281224k buffers
> Swap:  2048276k total,    85864k used,  1962412k free,  2078404k cached
> 
> I don't recall having to do this with 2.6.27 or any of its -rc's.

I've also noticed more swappiness (very probably due to the vm scanning
rework), but I can't say for sure if it's a bad thing...
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