[CentOS] Swap

[Feizhou]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Feizhou wrote on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:33:34 +0800:
> 
>> The patch only affects Intel 
>> processor-based boxes.
> 
> Machines in question are intel-based, PIII or Celeron, no "new" processor, 
> though. As I said it cannot be a general problem, maybe it affects P4 
> machines or so. It doesn't seem to affect the machines with CentOS 4.3 I 
> use.

Same here. PIII boxes.

> 
> The interesting figure in your free output is that there are 0 buffers on 
> the RHEL machine.
> 

Precisely because that patch changed the vm to behave like that. That 
patch don't pay any attention to swappiness or what not. It puts memory 
pressure on running processes instead.