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On Monday 06 December 2004 11:16 am, Grant wrote: |
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> > > Maybe a better way to phrase my question is: Is it possible to set my |
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> > > server up so it will use swap when it needs it and then free it back |
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> > > up when it doesn't need it anymore? What makes me think that is |
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> > > necessary is the fact that I see a very snappy response when browsing |
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> > > my site after a fresh reboot. After it's been up for awhile, the swap |
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> > > starts to fill and it slows down. Rebooting clears out the swap and |
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> > > the snaps return. |
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> > Actually, that is the default behaviour. |
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> I'm now using swap again for the first time since my last reboot. |
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> It's currently at 1036k, but that is guaranteed to keep increasing. |
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> Here's what I don't understand. |
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> total used free shared buffers cached |
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> Mem: 978 731 246 0 164 226 |
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> -/+ buffers/cache: 340 637 |
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> Swap: 494 1 493 |
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> If I'm reading that right, I'm only *using* using 340MB. Why doesn't |
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> the system get rid of some of the inactive stuff in memory so I don't |
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> have to use more and more swap and slow down my system? |
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Did I miss a previous post? What you don't see is that you are ONLY useing 1 |
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meg of swapper file... What slow down does that cause? |
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As for making the kernel use more of the free space in cache.... it will... |
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when it needs it. As you load more and more onto the task heap, the buffers |
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free space will begin to deminish... same for the free space in the memory |
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pool. |
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As for clearing out swap.... instead of rebooting a perfectly running linux |
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box, how about SWAPON/SWAPOFF? See the man pages... |
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