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DISCUSSION Paolo Ciarrocchi 2 participants 2 messages Oct 31, 2003

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Hello!

Hello Mario!
or ciao Mario! because your name really sounds Italian ;)

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I am running Kernel 2.4.21 on a unstable Debian box. I have included my IDE Chipset driver
I have just ONE game server on it and do not use that box very much, although, it uses its swap space for some reasons.

load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
Mem:    249136k total,   153572k used,    95564k free,    23636k buffers
Swap:   512024k total,   143652k used,   368372k free,    24500k cached
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# hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  150 MB in  3.01 seconds =  49.83 MB/sec

How can i find out why it is using so much swap, and how can i prevent it form doing so?
This swap usage makes my box very slow.

I can only suggest you to try on this machine the 2.4.23-pre9, it should really improve the VM.

Ciao,
Paolo

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Hello!

Hello Mario!
or ciao Mario! because your name really sounds Italian ;)

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I am running Kernel 2.4.21 on a unstable Debian box. I have included my

IDE

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Chipset driver
I have just ONE game server on it and do not use that box very much, although, it uses its swap space for some reasons.

load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
Mem:    249136k total,   153572k used,    95564k free,    23636k buffers
Swap:   512024k total,   143652k used,   368372k free,    24500k cached
# hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  150 MB in  3.01 seconds =  49.83 MB/sec
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How can i find out why it is using so much swap, and how can i prevent

it

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form doing so?
This swap usage makes my box very slow.

I can only suggest you to try on this machine the 2.4.23-pre9, it should really improve the VM.

Will the new 2.6.0 test9 solve this problem, too?

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