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From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu
To: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>
Cc: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Over used cache memory?
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:47:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031106214746.GA28517@ncsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1068128072.530.1421.camel@lemsip>

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:14:32PM +0100, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:40, jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:
> > If anyone has any ideas about this, I would love to hear them.
> 

> most likely it's copying a fsck load of that file in to anonymous
> mappings, causing swapping.

Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunatly thats not it.  I can reproduce this
problem with a little program that appends data to a file and every so
often seeks back to the beginning of the file and scribbles a little there.

Thanks,

Jim

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-06 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-06  8:05 Over used cache memory? Wee Teck Neo
2003-11-06  8:25 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-06  8:59 ` Jerry Lundström
2003-11-06  9:11 ` Helge Hafting
2003-11-06 13:40   ` jlnance
2003-11-06 14:14     ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-11-06 21:47       ` jlnance [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-06  9:15 Wee Teck Neo
2003-11-06 19:07 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-11-06 19:57   ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-06 20:50     ` Daniel Gryniewicz
     [not found] <BAY4-F18tJyMmxsywxZ00005d1a@hotmail.com>
2003-11-06  9:16 ` Jerry Lundström
2003-11-06  9:33 Wee Teck Neo

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