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Okay I am getting suspicious of tuxonice. Setting swappiness to zero |
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does not mean kernel wont use any swap but it should not be prefering |
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swap over ram when 2G of ram is out there either. |
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Just out of curiosity, can you find out which app(s) being swapped ? |
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I would give a try to gentoo-sources and see if the issue can be reproduced. |
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On 15/11/2010, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:41 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:09, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> > sure, but running it for 10 or 100 or 1000 hours should produce roughly |
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>> > the same characteristics for the same browsing behaviour if all other |
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>> > things are equal. A few months ago this didn't cause any issues at all, |
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>> > now I'm seeing high swap usage. I usually never use my 3G of physical |
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>> > RAM. |
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>> Can you recall what significant change have you made to the system? |
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>> For emerged packages you can try smth like genlop --list --date 1 |
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>> month ago and then check against the versions upgraded from. |
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> sure, only EVERYthing has been updated... including firefox and the |
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> kernel! |
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>> > Again today I see it is using about 900Mb in total, which seems quite |
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>> > large. vm.swappiness is set to 0. I've upgraded firefox to 3.6.12. |
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>> > I had to reboot, but I'll check the usual statistics next time I see it. |
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>> You say swappiness is set to 0 but dont give any swap usage info. |
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> that's cause I had to reboot and swap was back to 0. |
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>> If |
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>> there is any swap usage while swapiness is 0 then it would be weird |
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>> and we could blame it on the kernel. |
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> _any_ swap usage? right now I'm using 110Mb of swap with 1.8Gb free |
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> physical RAM and vm.swapiness is 0! |
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> $ free -m |
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> total used free shared buffers cached |
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> Mem: 3040 1206 1834 0 61 246 |
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> -/+ buffers/cache: 898 2142 |
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> Swap: 494 110 383 |
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> $ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness |
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> 0 |
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> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND |
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> 3192 iain 20 0 554m 204m 27m S 9 6.7 26:31.94 firefox |
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>> I just googled mem usage firefox as I am running out of ideas. |
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> but thanks for the suggestions anyway :) I'll keep googling! |
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> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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> Allen's Axiom: |
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> When all else fails, read the instructions. |
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Fatih |
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