Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Re: Memory upgrade

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 12:28:20PM +0200, Christian Schulte wrote:
> On 10/15/24 12:09, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2024-10-15, Zé Loff <zeloff@zeloff.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 10:14:42AM +0200, Christian Schulte wrote:
> >>> ulimit -d `ulimit -aH | grep data | awk '{print $2}'`
> >>> ulimit -n `ulimit -aH | grep nofiles | awk '{print $2}'`
> >
> > ulimit -d `ulimit -dH` etc... but then there's no point setting a
> > separate hard limit in login.conf.
>
> Of course. I am the only user on that system and the only limits I want
> "my" xsession to be in effect on that system are the hard limits setup
> by the kernel. Those make the system swap for no apparent reasons. So.
> Why is this thing swapping?

Because you are out of memory (most probably the usual amd64 problem of
running out of dma reachable memory and the pagedaemon going berserk about
that). You have plenty of ram just in the wrong spot.

--
:wq Claudio

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