From: Allen Campbell <lkml@campbell.cwx.net>
To: paulh@ucentric.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The page cache keeps growing
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:34:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011109123443.A94850@const.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BEC39E6.7F0FA75F@ucentric.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BEC39E6.7F0FA75F@ucentric.com>; from paulh@ucentric.com on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:17:42PM -0500
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:17:42PM -0500, paulh@ucentric.com wrote:
> I'd like to throw this out to the group for opinions-
>
> I'm working on a box using the 2.4.9 kernel that is saving a couple of
> mpeg2
> video streams, while playing back one of them. The box also allows one
> to
> web browse, play mp3's and configure one's home network.
>
> What I'm seeing is the page cache grow to huge sizes- to as much as
> 102MB
> of 128MB of memory. This is causing pages to be stolen from other
> processes
> in memory, so that when a user attempts to go to one of these, a long
> wait ensues
> while it's paged back in.
Move on to 2.4.14. VM changes since 2.4.9 have been 'significant.'
--
Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the
allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old.
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2001-11-09 20:17 The page cache keeps growing paulh
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