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

Paul Jackson
2004-04-29T21:39:22Z

Andrew wrote:
> Two things:
> a) a knob to say "only reclaim pagecache". We have that now.
> b) a knob to say "reclaim vfs caches harder" ...

Are these knobs system wide in affect, or per job?
I am presuming system wide.

When I'm working late, I want my updatedb/backup jobs
to scrunch themselves into a corner, even as my builds
and gui desktop continue to fly and suck up RAM.

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