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Message-ID: <4B0DDFDA.1030905@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:54:34 -0500
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To: Dan Merillat <dan.merillat@...il.com>
CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>,
Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>,
Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@...net.de>,
Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.31 - very swap-happy with plenty of free RAM
On 11/25/2009 06:13 PM, Dan Merillat wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Umm, very strange.
>> I made two debug patch. can you please apply it and post following
>> command output?
>>
>> % cat /proc/meminfo
>> % cat /proc/vmstat
>> % cat /proc/zoneinfo
>> # cat /proc/filecache | sort -nr -k3 |head -30
>>
> As I said I can't give you the filecache info, but here's two datasets
>
> The amount of cache is due to 1.5gb of mmaped vmware guest backing files.
>
> First, 400mb ram "free" but still swapping out - usable with a few
> pauses as apps swap back in.
>
>
Can you try out the patch from
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/25/467 ?
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