Re: strange i/o faults.....

From: Michael Boettger <office@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:12:25 +0100

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> From: James R Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>
> To: Michael Boettger <office@iddc.via.at>; squid-users@nlanr.net
> Subject: Re: strange i/o faults.....
> Date: Thursday, November 28, 1996 8:46 PM
>
> On Thu 28 Nov, 1996, "Michael Boettger" <office@iddc.via.at> wrote:
> > Is it normal to get that much physikal i/o page faults ????
>
> > Page faults with physical i/o: 28122
>
> You don't have enough real RAM, so Squid is paging in and out of memory.
> This is really bad for performance.
>
> The only solution is to get more RAM, generally speaking.
>
Thanx for the quick answer but that canīt be true. Here is my "cat
/proc/meminfo"

                   total: used: free: shared: buffers:
   cached:
Mem: 130998272 128909312 2088960 19251200 36159488 21340160
Swap: 127606784 0 127606784
MemTotal: 127928 kB
MemFree: 2040 kB
MemShared: 18800 kB
Buffers: 35312 kB
Cached: 20840 kB
SwapTotal: 124616 kB
SwapFree: 124616 kB

        this is after 5 days uptime.....

        any idea ???

        thnx again Michael

        ps: the machine is a pentium 166 with 128mb 60ns edo-ram, adaptec 2940uw
and two
        ibm orion wide-scsi disks and a 3c590 ethernet card nothing other running
on the machine

        base system redhat linux v4.0 with all reicent updates to kernel v2.0.26
Received on Thu Nov 28 1996 - 12:19:14 MST

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