Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:26:11 +0200 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> I've read (don't remember where) there are patches to make kernel
>> change its swappiness value automatically, depending on the memory
>> usage for the particular moment.
>>
Hi,
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:26:11 +0200 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I've read (don't remember where) there are patches to make kernel
> change its swappiness value automatically, depending on the memory
> usage for the particular moment.
That would be the ck-patchset. Gentoo has it
Redouane Boumghar wrote:
>
> The man is not very extensive.
> Has Anyone more info on configuration of the file /etc/sysctl.conf ?
> especially for :
> vm.swappiness
> vm.swap_token_timeout
>
>
Actually using sysctl is the same as reading/writing values from/in the
files found in /proc. For examp
Hi,
Thanks a lot for all this lightening
Have a good day,
Red.
Uwe Thiem wrote:
[snip]
So once your system has started to use swap space, some memory pages will
always stay in your swap space because things are paged in again only if they
are used.
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On 15 December 2006 13:53, Redouane Boumghar wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Grant wrote:
> > Also, I've noticed in top that when my server's 2GB of memory is
> > filled, it uses a small amount of swap (~24k) before it frees some up.
> > The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal?
>
> Yes I have also no
Redouane Boumghar wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Grant wrote:
>> Also, I've noticed in top that when my server's 2GB of memory is
>> filled, it uses a small amount of swap (~24k) before it frees some up.
>> The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal?
>
> Yes I have also notice that after a heavy ram us
Hello all,
Grant wrote:
Also, I've noticed in top that when my server's 2GB of memory is
filled, it uses a small amount of swap (~24k) before it frees some up.
The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal?
Yes I have also notice that after a heavy ram use I get this tiny
space used on my swap
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:08:35 -0600
Dale wrote:
> Grant wrote:
> >
> > My server is mainly used for apache2 with mod_perl. I would think
> > that cache comes in handy. Will a web server pretty much always
> > find something more to cache, or can you add memory to the point
> > where everything th
Grant wrote:
>
> The thing is, it's memory in a hosted machine and I think I'm paying
> like $35/month for the extra gigabyte. I should probably do some
> testing or just have them remove the memory for a month and see how I
> like it.
>
> - Grant
That does change things. In my opinion, I would
> My server is mainly used for apache2 with mod_perl. I would think
> that cache comes in handy. Will a web server pretty much always find
> something more to cache, or can you add memory to the point where
> everything that can be cached is cached?
>
> - Grant
I have read a few articles on how
Grant wrote:
>> > The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal?
>>
>> If the question is whether it is normal that the swap space is not freed
>> even when it's not being used anymore, the answer would be "yes".
>
> I'm wondering if it's normal for the system to use a small amount of
> swap before
Grant wrote:
>
> My server is mainly used for apache2 with mod_perl. I would think
> that cache comes in handy. Will a web server pretty much always find
> something more to cache, or can you add memory to the point where
> everything that can be cached is cached?
>
> - Grant
I have read a few a
> The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal?
If the question is whether it is normal that the swap space is not freed
even when it's not being used anymore, the answer would be "yes".
I'm wondering if it's normal for the system to use a small amount of
swap before it frees memory for the fi
On 09:48 Thu 14 Dec , Grant wrote:
[snip]
> The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal?
If the question is whether it is normal that the swap space is not freed
even when it's not being used anymore, the answer would be "yes".
Writing to disk is too expensive, so I think the kernel does fr
>> > From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full.
>> > Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use?
>>
>> The free command.
>>
>> $ free
>> total used free sharedbuffers
>> cached
>> Mem: 1028164 928764 9940
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:49:34 -0800, Grant wrote:
>
>
>>> $ free
>>> total used free sharedbuffers
>>> cached Mem: 1028164 928764 99400 0
>>> 28228 468768 -/+ buffers/cache: 431768 596396
>>> Swap: 15
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:49:34 -0800, Grant wrote:
> > $ free
> > total used free sharedbuffers
> > cached Mem: 1028164 928764 99400 0
> > 28228 468768 -/+ buffers/cache: 431768 596396
> > Swap: 1556168 2104761345692
Grant wrote:
>> > From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full.
>> > Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use?
>>
>> The free command.
>>
>> $ free
>> total used free sharedbuffers
>> cached
>> Mem: 1028164
> From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full.
> Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use?
The free command.
$ free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 1028164 928764 99400 0 282
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:48:25 -0800, Grant wrote:
> From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full.
> Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use?
The free command.
$ free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:
From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full.
Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use? It
would also be useful to know the maximum amount of memory that was
actively in use over a given period of time.
Also, I've noticed in top that when my server's
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