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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

  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-26  0:35 Chuck Ebbert
     [not found] <4t5s8-68A-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [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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