Re: 2.0.31-pre7 swap-used wrap-around

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:04:23 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Westley Weimer wrote:

> Under 2.0.31-pre7 with the CONFIG_FREE_PAGE_CACHE, QNX 2.0.31-pre6-1 and
> raid145-0.36.3-2.0.30 patches, out of the blue while running top I noticed
> that I seemed to be using a *lot* of swap space. This is a pentium-100 with
> no history of hardware or memory problems.
>
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 31707136 30621696 1085440 8925184 5865472 10928128
> Swap: 111017984 4292739072 113246208
>
> ** Note "swap-used" = 4,292,739,072 = 2^32 - 2172k (exactly).

If you check the archives, you'll find a very similar post from me, using
a less hacked up kernel (probably 2.0.30).

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