From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from f04n07.cac.psu.edu (f04s07.cac.psu.edu [128.118.141.35]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA11003 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:24:52 -0500 Message-ID: <369BAD5A.235762CE@psu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:15:22 -0500 From: Michael K Vance MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Results: Zlatko's new vm patch References: <199901121816.SAA11120@dax.scot.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Joseph Anthony , Linus Torvalds , Steve Bergman , Andrea Arcangeli , brent verner , "Garst R. Reese" , Kalle Andersson , Zlatko Calusic , Ben McCann , bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Alan Cox List-ID: "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > Well, sometimes the system writes to swap before I have used half my > > memory ( in X ) I view this with wmmon in windowmaker.. > > Suspect wmmon in that case. If you can show this happening in a trace > output from "vmstat 1", then I'll start to worry. wmmon stuffs both swap and physical mem in its "MEM" area, and also has a listing for "SWP", ie swap. I assume top is still reliable? m. -- "We watched her fall over and lay down, shouting the poetic truths of high school journal keepers." -- Lee Rinaldo, Sonic Youth -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org