From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 05:44:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Zlatko Calusic , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 20 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On 20 May 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > > > > Also in all recent kernels, if the machine is swapping, swap cache > > > grows without limits and is hard to recycle, but then again that is > > > a known problem. > > > > This one bugs me. I do not see that and can't understand why. > > Could it be because we never free swap space and never > delete pages from the swap cache ? I sent a query to the list asking if a heavy load cleared it out, but got no replies. I figured about the only thing it could be is that under light load, reclaim isn't needed to cure and shortage. -Mike -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/