Re: updatedb

Rene Herman
2007-07-26T08:01:11Z

On 07/26/2007 09:08 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote:

> On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:56:59 Rene Herman wrote:

>> 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_.
>
> ;)
>
> I have 2Gb of RAM and I never ever touched swap on all my work loads. I
> was just showing the behavior of updatedb on my desktop. I have never
> even looked at the swap-prefetch patch (for obvious reasons).

I see... thanks for the report :)

> I think people should also look at their /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio

In the sense that current stuff might be evicted earlier with no or little
overcommit?

Rene.