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 karunakar rao
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Joris van Rantwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > H

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

2008-06-23 Thread karunakar rao
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. Thnaks, karunkara. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Joris van Rantwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > My system recently starte

RE: Memory usage and /proc/meminfo question

2008-06-22 Thread Li Xiaodong
Hi, > 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. Wh

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

RE: Memory usage and /proc/meminfo question

2008-06-22 Thread Li Xiaodong
your computer... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joris van Rantwijk > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:54 PM > To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org > Subject: Memory usage and /proc/meminfo question > > Hello, > &

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