From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA25373 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:12:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 17:11:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] stricter pagecache pruning In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: Linux MM List-ID: On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: >Hi, > >I hope this patch will alleviate some of Andrea's >problems with the page cache growing out of bounds. Yes it seems really to help. Anyway I think that we could do something of more clever. Now it happens more rarely that kswapd has to swapout things. But when this happen the machine stall as usual. For example if I run `free` a lot of times while cp file /dev/zero is running, `free` stall only when free' s output will show that the swap is been increased of a bit (and that some kbyte really don' t help in function of increased free memory, they only cause a stall sometimes). The patch helps though, thanks. No other problems so far. Andrea[s] Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org