Re: memory handling in pre5/pre6

From: Vandoorselaere Yoann (yoann@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 07:00:35 EST


Lech Szychowski <lech.szychowski@pse.pl> writes:

> > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> > Mem: 523837440 520978432 2859008 0 117579776 313892864
> > Swap: 402096128 45477888 356618240
> > MemTotal: 511560 kB
> > MemFree: 2792 kB
> > MemShared: 0 kB
> > Buffers: 114824 kB
> > Cached: 306536 kB
> > HighTotal: 0 kB
> > HighFree: 0 kB
> > LowTotal: 511560 kB
> > LowFree: 2792 kB
> > SwapTotal: 392672 kB
> > SwapFree: 348260 kB
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 523792384 520155136 3637248 0 46567424 389492736
> Swap: 542826496 77524992 465301504
> MemTotal: 511516 kB
> MemFree: 3552 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 45476 kB
> Cached: 380364 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 511516 kB
> LowFree: 3552 kB
> SwapTotal: 530104 kB
> SwapFree: 454396 kB
>
> > I've never had this machine swapping before (last version before these
> > was 2.3.47). I don't know what changed but it wasn't a good change.
> > The machine has enough memory to do its job and it's not necesary to
> > keep everything in the cache.
> > Again, this is a unmodified 2.3.99-pre6 on a 2xPIII machine.
>
> All I can say is "same here"...

Same here,
but what i notice is that it only start to show up
when using X...

I'm thinking of a shm problem,
any clue ?

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