On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:44:07AM +0800, Willy Sutrisno wrote: | hi, | | I installed potato last week. For the past 1 week, I observed that potato very | seldom use my swap. Previously when I was using RedHat, my comp use alot of | swap. Sometime even reach 100%, left my ram 80% utilize. | | Eventhough there is a different in the size of the swap | potato - Memory: 96MB Swap: 190MB | redhat - Memory: 96MB Swap: 100MB | | Can someone enlighten me, why this thing happen? I can see that when | I was using redhat, the swap is keep running. I can observe this | from gkrellm. Now, when I use potato, it is very seldom use swap. | The most only 10%.
Which kernel version? Potato usually uses a 2.2 kernel. 2.4 kernels
are more swap-happy than 2.2 ones. Also all kernels between 2.4.0 and
2.4.10 have serious problems with the VM. (eg 2.4.7 that RH 7.2 ships
with)
-D
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