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

Rik van Riel
2004-04-29T01:49:03Z

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> OK, so it takes four seconds to swap mozilla back in, and you noticed it.
>
> Did you notice that those three kernel builds you just did ran in twenty
> seconds less time because they had more cache available? Nope.

That's exactly why desktops should be optimised to give
the best performance where the user notices it most...

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