Bug#620993: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#620993: general: Lenny 2.6.26-2 has noticably increased swap usage, tho not swap thrashing)

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Gary
On 4/5/2011 2:47 PM, Russell Coker wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Daniel Gary wrote: I'm not arguing that, I fully expect the kernel to use it to swap *if needed*. And if this was 20MB of swap, or maybe 100MB, ok, sure, the kernel might be swapping old pages out, but 300MB+ swapping out in 2

Bug#620993: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#620993: general: Lenny 2.6.26-2 has noticably increased swap usage, tho not swap thrashing)

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Gary
ng on these systems that has changed was 2.6.26-1 to 2.6.26-2, and swap wasn't being used to this extent, or staying used if it was used, prior to 2.6.26-2. Now it almost seems that once its used it doesn't get freed. On 4/5/2011 1:45 PM, Vincent Danjean wrote: On 05/04/2011 21:15, Daniel

Bug#620993: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#620993: general: Lenny 2.6.26-2 has noticably increased swap usage, tho not swap thrashing)

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Gary
I have, but fixing monitoring to suit edge cases created from a recent upgrade doesn't make the edge cases non-issues. This is still an issue whether you want to hide it under nagios or not, so I'd appreciate a little more assistance in finding the problem beyond "fixing nagios". If you go the

Bug#620993: general: Lenny 2.6.26-2 has noticably increased swap usage, tho not swap thrashing

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Gary
Package: general Severity: normal Swap usage prior to 2.6.26-2 upgrade was a relatively constant 0 Post 2.6.26-2 upgrade the usage is usually up into 300MB, not actively swapping however and doesn't seem to be affecting performance, but nagios is none to happy about swap being used. The problem