Re: Linux 2.6.31 - very swap-happy with plenty of free RAM

[Rik van Riel]

On 11/25/2009 06:13 PM, Dan Merillat wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx>  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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