I maintain a Red Hat system 3.2.47 with 12G of physical memory. The application is Sun Directory server 5.2 . My memory parms are : [xxxx:/proc/sys/vm] # cat bdflush 50 500 0 0 500 3000 80 50 0 [eds1:/proc/sys/vm] # cat pagecache 1 15 30 I am surprised that with this much memory I am slowing using more and more swap space : The system has bben in production only a week , yet I see ; ds1:/proc/sys/vm] # vmstat 1 5 procs memory swap io system cpu r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy wa id 0 0 5436 120196 166200 10942208 0 0 6 8 1 9 2 0 0 11 0 0 5436 120192 166200 10942208 0 0 0 0 374 584 1 0 0 99 1 0 5436 120128 166200 10942272 0 0 0 0 678 1295 4 0 0 96 with swap space usage slowly growing. Most of the memory is taken up with file pages, ( very intensive loggin g ), not program pages. How do I get the system to preferentially write back to diak file pages ? JYard UCLA -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
