cent-3 is RH9 based. Maybe they've fixed it..but after 1 year of screwing around i went with cent-4 and it's 2.6 kernel and never had any issues since that time. Les Mikesell wrote: > William Warren wrote: >> yes i did. The 2.4x Rh kernels actually aren't right in their >> swapping behavior. it really nailed my samba server here at the house >> and caused massive swapping and load issues on a friend's gaming >> server. i don't know what it is about RH's 2.4x kernels but they swap >> and won't give the cache memory back. I have more than 6 ipcop >> firewalls based on 2.4 kernels(not RH) and they won't swap unless you >> actually exhaust physical memory. The issue is the RH 2.4x kernels >> which for some reason continue to swap even with 500 MEGS of cache >> memory available to take back. 2.6x runs much better and actually >> obeys the swappiness commands. Even the various patches done by Rh on >> the 2.4x kernel never reduces this behavior. > > I don't think I've seen that. Here is a 'top' from an RH7.3 box whose > uptime counter has rolled a couple of times so it has actually been > running several years. > > 10:57am up 317 days, 6:56, 6 users, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.09 > 213 processes: 210 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped > CPU states: 5.1% user, 2.9% system, 0.0% nice, 91.8% idle > Mem: 2065404K av, 1988360K used, 77044K free, 0K shrd, 570124K buff > Swap: 1331128K av, 204848K used, 1126280K free 1158784K cached > > > That doesn't seem that bad and it's a 2.4.20-18.7 kernel. It's not very > busy now because it is a weekend. I never see a lot of swap-in > happening even when it is busy. > -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/