From: "Kyle Maxwell" <krmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: FC2 and Swapping
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:39:56 -0700, Mike McMullen
> <mlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Under FC1 with our load on a system with 512MB of memory it was
> > > not unusual to see 35MB to 100MB of swap utilized. Under FC2
> > > it is 0.
> > >
> > > The system seems to perform a little fast than FC2 did. Every once and
> > > a while it slows to a crawl then speeds up again. This usually happens
> > > when memory intensive apps like SpamAssassin kick in. Never doing
> > > these periods do I see any swap used at all.
> > >
> > That should be the system seems to perform a little faster than FC1.
>
> Just curious what the output of "free -m" shows. I think there were
> some VM improvements in the kernel, which is where that really should
> show up. Have you turned off any other processes that occupied memory
> space when you ran FC1 but not now?
>
Hi Kyle,
Output of free -m is as follows:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 503 486 16 0 237 151
-/+ buffers/cache: 97 405
Swap: 995 0 995
The application mix is exactly the same as it was under FC1. I've monitored
with free and top and swap is never used.
Mike
