Re: Memory usage and /proc/meminfo question

2008-06-23 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:10:07PM +0530, karunakar rao wrote: > > > I noticed LowTotal,LowFree entries are missing . > > > Can any one explain why those entries are not there.even HighTotal and > > > HighFree are missing. > > >It is an x86_64 kernel, so it does not support highmem. > ya thanks

Re: Memory usage and /proc/meminfo question

2008-06-23 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:36:48PM +0530, karunakar rao wrote: > in /proc/meminfo > I noticed LowTotal,LowFree entries are missing . > Can any one explain why those entries are not there.even HighTotal and > HighFree are missing. It is an x86_64 kernel, so it does not support highmem. Joris. --

Re: Memory usage and /proc/meminfo question

2008-06-22 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
Hello Li, Thanks for your response. On 23 jun 2008, at 04:00, Li Xiaodong wrote: According to the information you give, my suggestions are as follows: 1. Check if there are daemon processes named pdflush running in your system. If have 2 pdflush daemons running. 2. If NOT, 2.1 turn

Memory usage and /proc/meminfo question

2008-06-22 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
Hello, My system recently started to act as if it is low on memory: much harddisk activity and relatively high usage of swap. I have not seen such behaviour before. The problem seems to persist even after stopping nearly all applications including the X server. I have not rebooted the machine yet