Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell

Timothy Miller
2004-05-07T17:23:40Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>>>Perhaps what we really want is "swap_back_in" script? That way you
>>>could do "updatedb; swap_back_in" in cron and be happy.
>>
>>swapoff -a; swapon -a
>
>
> Good point... it will not bring back executable pages, through.
>
> Pavel

Wouldn't this also be a problem if you are using more memory than you
have physical RAM?