From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:24:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:24:41 -0400 Received: from rdu26-57-156.nc.rr.com ([66.26.57.156]:11168 "EHLO gateway.house") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:24:34 -0400 Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 From: Michael Rothwell To: Ricardo Galli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12.99 (Preview Release) Date: 16 Sep 2001 11:23:54 -0400 Message-Id: <1000653836.2440.0.camel@gromit.house> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Is there a way to tell the VM to prune its cache? Or a way to limit the amount of cache it uses? On 16 Sep 2001 17:19:43 +0200, Ricardo Galli wrote: > > So whether Linux uses swap or not is a 100% meaningless indicator of > > "goodness". The only thing that matters is how well the job gets done, > > ie was it reasonably responsive, and did the big untars finish quickly.. > > I am running 2.4.9 on a PII with 448MB RAM. After listening a couple of > hours MP3 from the /dev/cdrom and KDE started, more than 70MB went to > swap, about 300 MB in cache and KDE takes about 15-20 seconds just for > logging out and showing the greeting console. > > Obviously, all apps went to disk to leave space for caching mp3 files that > are read only once. Altough logging out is not a very often process... > > Regards, > > > --ricardo > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/