From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: lgb@lgb.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel cached memory
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:07:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050725190731.0d634842@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E517B6.1010704@tmr.com>
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:47:50 -0400
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> And IMHO Linux is *way* too willing to evicy clean pages of my
> programs to use as disk buffer, so that when system memory is full I
> pay the overhead of TWO disk i/o's, one to finally write the data to
> the disk and one to read my program back in. If free software is
> about choice, I wish there was more in the area of how memory is
> used.
isn't this tuned enough by "/proc/sys/vm/swappiness" ?
--
Paolo Ornati
Linux 2.6.13-rc3 on x86_64
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-25 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 9:46 Kernel cached memory Ashley
2005-07-22 11:31 ` Diego Calleja
2005-07-22 12:57 ` Erik Mouw
2005-07-22 21:43 ` John Pearson
2005-07-23 12:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-07-22 13:25 ` Gábor Lénárt
2005-07-22 17:58 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-23 10:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-07-25 16:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-25 17:03 ` Diego Calleja
2005-07-25 17:07 ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2005-07-25 18:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-01 10:38 ` Gábor Lénárt
2005-08-01 21:08 ` Bill Davidsen
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2005-07-26 0:35 Chuck Ebbert
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[not found] ` <4tdIU-479-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-07-26 5:03 ` Robert Hancock
2005-07-26 15:00 ` Bill Davidsen
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