On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Maybe a double post, but here it goes :
>
> This 2.2.16 machine is continuing to swap.. Looks like buffers are
> growing, but not getting smaller :
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 193304 190592 2712 58816 88752 66092
> -/+ buffers/cache: 35748 157556
> Swap: 136544 2396 134148
>
> This is vmstat 1 :
>
>
> r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us
> sy id
> 0 0 0 2396 2904 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 116 28 3
> 5 92
> 0 0 0 2396 2904 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 116 22 4
> 3 94
> 0 0 0 2396 2904 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 113 16 5
> 3 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2904 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 114 18 4
> 4 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2904 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 118 20 5
> 3 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2880 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 127 58 6
> 5 89
> 0 0 0 2396 2880 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 116 18 4
> 4 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 116 18 4
> 4 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 114 18 4
> 4 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 116 18 3
> 5 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 113 22 3
> 5 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 113 18 4
> 4 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 116 18 5
> 3 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 14 124 18 5
> 3 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 115 18 5
> 3 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 115 18 5
> 3 93
> 0 0 0 2396 2884 88752 66092 0 0 0 0 118 20 3
> 5 93
> 1 0 0 2396 2596 88752 66092 0 0 0 3 138 29 12
> 4 84
> 0 0 0 2396 3148 87756 66064 0 0 0 1 134 39 6
> 9 85
> 1 0 0 2396 3600 87756 66064 0 0 0 19 146 68 12
> 9 79
> 0 0 0 2396 4012 87756 66064 0 0 0 0 119 18 4
> 3 94
> 0 0 0 2396 4012 87756 66064 0 0 0 0 115 20 3
> 5 93
>
> The machine is a plain 2.2.16, which runs a webserver, and some other
> things.. After initial bootup the memory consumption is about 30 MB or
> so, and it grows fast..
>
> Any clue why it is using this large amount of mem ??
Because the VM is slightly broken :)
We changed stuff a bit on 2.2.17pre series.
Try it out and report results.
Thanks!
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