I ran a program that allocates memory in 4k chunks, on the uniprocessor
kernel it will start swapping after real mem is taken, but on SMP it just
sits there and buffers and buffers and buffers...is that normal do you
think? :)
J
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > Here is a free report for everyone BTW, you'll enjoy this. I admit it's a
> > weird situation. I'm trying newer kernels as I write this.
> >
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 257176 238112 19064 69184 91992 69844
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 76276 180900
> > Swap: 130748 0 130748
> >
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 515848 482776 33072 76616 176136 210868
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 95772 420076
> > Swap: 261496 0 261496
> >
>
> You have so many free memory. Why should swap be used? I have
> a dual PPro SMP machine with 256MB RAM:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 257580 252320 5260 30420 80560 139448
> -/+ buffers/cache: 32312 225268
> Swap: 16060 8 16052
>
> I have no problem with swap. But I have never used more than 10MB
> swap.
>
> H.J.
>
>
