From: Ed Sweetman <safemode@speakeasy.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Buddy Lumpkin <b.lumpkin@attbi.com>,
Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>,
Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: About the need of a swap area
Date: 28 Jul 2002 15:47:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027885641.4228.143.camel@psuedomode> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207281629010.3086-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 15:29, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 28 Jul 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>
> > If you bother to do any real tests you'd see that linux will swap when
> > nothing is going on and this doesn't hinder anything.
>
> Linux only puts pages in swap when it's low on free physical memory.
Perhaps, but linux considers disk cache as "in use" memory and most
people would consider it free memory that's just temporarily being taken
advantage of "in case". Linux will still swap even if 60% of ram is
filesystem cache. I dont have a problem with it, was just stating some
real observations.
> regards,
>
> Rik
> --
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-28 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-27 12:22 About the need of a swap area DervishD
2002-07-27 14:42 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-27 15:47 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-27 20:41 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-27 20:50 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-27 16:11 ` DervishD
2002-07-27 17:01 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-28 11:04 ` DervishD
2002-07-29 13:14 ` [lkml] " Ian Soboroff
2002-07-28 0:02 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-07-27 20:58 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-27 22:22 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-27 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-27 22:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-27 22:49 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-27 23:36 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-27 22:39 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-28 0:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-27 22:52 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-27 23:01 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-28 0:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-27 23:34 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-28 6:58 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-28 7:59 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-28 8:19 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-28 14:11 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-28 15:57 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-28 18:48 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-28 18:58 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-07-28 19:29 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-28 19:47 ` Ed Sweetman [this message]
2002-07-28 20:42 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-07-28 20:27 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-30 19:31 ` Andy Isaacson
2002-07-28 16:20 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-29 7:18 ` Val Henson
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