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Strange swap growth/exhaustion

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Subject: Strange swap growth/exhaustion
From: Alvaro R <askxfs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:21:38 -0300
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Hello, I am running SuSE 9.0 Enterprise, latest kernel
2.6.5-7.147-smp, on a IBM Blade server. It has 2 Xeon processors, 2,5
gigs of RAM, and it is attached to a FastT store.

I have create a 1,2 terabyte raid0 partition (on top of fastt's raid5)
and handle *several* image files (tif, soon to be djvu) with sizes
around 70k. most of the files are on a single directory, and all is
working fine (uptime is 89 days), but since I converted from reiserfs
to XFS I am getting crappy backup thruput, but I am thinking that this
is CA's software fault, since it has been patched.

Anyway, I have a 1gig swap partition, and it got filled up quickly,
while I only run plain Apache2 (worker) to serve the images (no PHP or
other dynamic content). and there's nothing that seem to be using this
swap area, but it is 100% anyway, I after while created a swapfile,
also 1gig, and it also became 100% full, usage growth rate is about
400 megs/hour.

RAM is ok, see below:

any ideias ? Just started happening with XFS...

Thanks in advance.

alvaro@blade01:~> cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      2594792 kB
MemFree:         73116 kB
Buffers:         40520 kB
Cached:        2347360 kB
SwapCached:        220 kB
Active:        1031532 kB
Inactive:      1384416 kB
HighTotal:     1703860 kB
HighFree:         3712 kB
LowTotal:       890932 kB
LowFree:         69404 kB
SwapTotal:     2097120 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Dirty:            1776 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:          32948 kB
Slab:            79368 kB
Committed_AS:  2851264 kB
PageTables:        672 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:     21712 kB
VmallocChunk:    76392 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB


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