similar to: swapping on centos 5.1

every other day I do full backups to both a second internal disk and an external usb disk. I am using a fully up to date centos 5.1 AMD 64 X2 6400+ machine. with SATA disks. using an NVIDIA chipset, when I do a full rsync the responsiveness of my machine suffers. Slow on the internal disk and really slow on external usb. doing "top" shows 0% idle but only 17% CPU usage by the rsync

"Unable to handle kernel paging request". I've saved the OOPS data from the logs for 6 panics since the 4.4 update. Two before I turned on DRI for my radeon (why not? Couldn't be any less "stable"). Did my google work and became aware it is a long-standing unfixed problem (at least through kernel 2.6.15? IIRC). I've started reading what I can find on crash to see

I can't resist. Read the thread that was pointed to on lkml. ROTFLMAO. *Real* UNIX addressed these problems long ago. I guess the "Gurus" suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. Given a "general purpose" system, tunability is a must. UNIX, as delivered by USL in such examples as Sys V, had tunables that let admins tune to their needs. A single "swappiness"

hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness I simply mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup; mkdir /mnt/backup/month.day.year then rsync -a /home /mnt/backup/mon.day.year This is approximately

Am 05.06.2015 um 17:40 schrieb Greg Lindahl: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 12:29:04PM +0200, Markus "Shorty" Uckelmann wrote: > >> How can I further debug this >> problem and find out what's the culprit? > > It's working as designed. Sadly. It is just my first time I see this behaviour to this extent/on so many servers. So you can say that I'm kind of a

Hi All, I have a server that has its swappiness set to 0. It is running a little tight on memory and so there have been a couple of events where the OOM_killer has been invoked and killed off MySQL, which you would expect. Now if you have your swappiness at 0 then "A value of 0 instructs the kernel not to initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages is less than the high

Hi all, This might not be CentOS related at all. Sorry about that. I have lots of C6 & C7 machines in use and all of them have the default swappiness of 60. The problem now is that a lot of those machines do swap although there is no memory pressure. I'm now thinking about lowering swappiness to 1. But I'd still like to find out why this happens. The only common thing between all

Am 05.06.2015 um 00:23 schrieb Dennis Jacobfeuerborn: > If I'd have to venture a guess then I'd say there are memory pages that > are never touched by any processes and as a result the algorithm has > decided that it's more effective to swap out these pages to disk and use > the freed ram for the page-cache. That's my guess too. [...] > impact. If however these

You are correct, I'll refine my problem, By running "systemctl status systemd-sysctl" I also receive the same output, but a simple "cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness" returns the default value, and not the one set by my conf file. But, if I run "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl" the "cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness" does return the correct value. Any idea ? Does

Hi all, I order to reach maximum performance on my centos kvm hosts I have use these params: - On /etc/grub.conf: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ elevator=deadline quiet - On sysctl.conf # Special network params net.core.rmem_default = 8388608 net.core.wmem_default = 8388608 net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 net.core.wmem_max = 16777216

also in /etc/sysctl.d/ On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/23/2015 05:08 AM, Ofer Hasson wrote: > >> By running "systemctl status systemd-sysctl" I also receive the same >> output, but a simple "cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness" returns the default >> value, and not the one set by my conf file.

Hello, I am going to buy new laptop with two drives, one SSD and one HDD and I want to place swap partition on HDD which will be most time unused and therefore spinned down. Problem is, that I don't know, if or how often is kernel touching swap space even if there is lot of free memory and thus spinning HDD up. Thank you in advance

I know this is more of a general unix question, but the thread about the last kernel update, and memory usage got me to looking and thinking. Given a system with 2 Gb of memory, and at peak usage, top reports considerably less than the 2 gig amount in use, as well as system monitoring that never shows all available memory used, what would happen if you just turned swap off, and let memory

On 12/23/2015 11:12 PM, Ofer Hasson wrote: > [root at web-devel-local-1 ~]# /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl > [root at web-devel-local-1 ~]# cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness > 10 So... you know that it works when you run it from a root shell, but not during boot. Is the file labeled properly? Anything in audit.log?

I use live migration with xen (stable) domain on NFS root filesystem. I do not understand how to setup and migrating swap space in xen for live migration. two VBD as swap disk? Swap space on NFS?? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks Daniele _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Is there a way to tell linux "dont ever swap out my program"... Like perhaps a list of programs (some setup file) that if any program in my file listing is running dont consider the program when looking for something to swap out? Does anything like that exist? Thanks, Jerry

Dear CentOS people, This is just a general question related to memory management, and there may have been a thread or two about it before, but I'd like to post anyway. A user was looking at top, whereby he found out that his two processes were 10.2g and 4836m in VIRT. They were 6.4g and 4.6g in RES respectively. 3445964k was free still. He was wondering why the system didn't use

Mem: 2075040k total, 1331452k used, 743588k free, 50896k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1191532k cached SunFire X2100 running Centos 4.3. Linux maytag1.texoma.net 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux rgds/ldv

Hi all, I have seen this issue as well, on Gluster 3.12.1. (3 bricks per box, 2 boxes, distributed-replicate) My testing shows the same thing -- running a find on a directory dramatically increases lstat performance. To add another clue, the performance degrades again after issuing a call to reset the system's cache of dentries and inodes: # sync; echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches I

Hi, I'm looking for a way to prevent qemu processes on a libvirt host to use swap unless there is no physical memory free but apparently this is not as easy as I'd hoped it would be. This is on a CentOS 7 system. At first I tried setting /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 1 (apparently setting it to 0 now means even the OOM killer takes precedence over swapping: