Re: 2.5.68-mm2: Memory & swap issues ?

[Andrew Morton]

Philippe Gramoullé  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> MemTotal:       514452 kB
> MemFree:         20720 kB
> Buffers:          8200 kB
> Cached:          74148 kB
> SwapCached:      38488 kB
> Active:         412740 kB
> Inactive:        12824 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:       514452 kB
> LowFree:         20720 kB
> SwapTotal:      618460 kB
> SwapFree:        15156 kB
> Dirty:            7228 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> Mapped:         337808 kB
> Slab:            57520 kB
> Committed_AS:  1023568 kB
> PageTables:       2804 kB
> VmallocTotal:   516040 kB
> VmallocUsed:      3308 kB
> VmallocChunk:   512688 kB

Are you sure you don't have some big leaky application which is swapped
out?

Check `top', `ps aux', etc, see if something has a big virtual size.

Restart the X server.

See if swapoff -a invokes the oom-killer ;)

Failing all that, it might be a swapspace accounting error.