From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46A845BB.9080503@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:56:59 +0200 From: Rene Herman MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: updatedb References: <367a23780707250830i20a04a60n690e8da5630d39a9@mail.gmail.com> <46A81C39.4050009@gmail.com> <200707260839.51407.bhlope@mweb.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200707260839.51407.bhlope@mweb.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Bongani Hlope Cc: Robert Deaton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck list , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: >> So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op "top" in one terminal >> and updatedb in another, what does it show? > Just tested that, there's a steady increase in the useage of buff Great. Now concentrate on the "swpd" column, as it's the only thing relevant here. The fact that an updatedb run fills/replaces caches is completely and utterly unsurprising and not something swap-prefetch helps with. The only thing it does is bring back stuff from _swap_. Rene. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org