Re: Problems with swapping

[Jussi Silvennoinen <jussi_taroon silvennoinen net>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:

> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   System is fully updated RHES 3.0. And server seems to be
> too aggressively swapping. "vmstat 1" output:
> 
> procs                      memory      swap          io     system
> cpu
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id
> wa
>  0  1 612952  18932  11768 3377112   16    0   708   188  957  1037 14  4 73
> 8
>
> 
>   Why to swap in/out when there is >3GB of data in cache? The single running
> task
> is Oracle. sysctl settings are default.
> 
>   What could I tune or where to read about reducing swapping?

http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/papers.html

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  Jussi