* Geoffrey Romer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never > seems > to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out, > the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the notion > of rebooting a system to fix a problem is giving me Windows flashbacks...) > > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all?
I've not monitored swap usage since upgrading to 2.4.6 so I cannot answer that. If not, are there any other > workarounds? How much swap & RAM do you have? I've heard (on kernel mailing list IIRC) that if your swap is 2-3 * RAM size, the bug shouldn't hurt anything. I've less swap then RAM here, and I get out of memory errors after about 2 weeks uptime. AFAIK known workarounds are to have plenty of swap or to reboot the box every once in a while. Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public key The wombat is a mixture of chalk and clay used for respiration. -- MegaHal
