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From: "Anthony R." <russo.lutions@verizon.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cache limit
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:28:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F42342A.8050605@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308190533.h7J5XoL06419@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>


>>another program needs more memory, so it shouldn't swap, but that is not
>>the
>>behaviour I am seeing.
>>
>>Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
>>    
>>
>
>I'd say stop allocating insane amounts of swap.
>Frankly, with 2G you may run without swap at all.
>  
>
I'm not sure how you knew I had 2GB of swap. ;)
I just always thought it was a good idea to have some just in case.
I did not know having swap would actually, in some cases, degrade
performance.

Are you saying that, if I turn off swap, the amount of cache used will
be the same, but that when other programs need more memory, the kernel
will take it from cache? If so, I will try, since that would be
an ideal solution.

And while O_STREAMING sounds good, I'm not really up for rewriting
all the rsync-like apps. I want my OS to deal with it.

Thanks.

-- tony
"Surrender to the Void." -- John Lennon




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-19 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-19  4:39 cache limit Anthony R.
2003-08-19  4:57 ` Nuno Silva
2003-08-19  5:33 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-08-19  6:20   ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19  9:05     ` J.A. Magallon
2003-08-19  9:16       ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19  9:28         ` J.A. Magallon
2003-08-19  9:43           ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 13:32     ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-19 20:56       ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 14:28   ` Anthony R. [this message]
2003-08-19 18:26     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-19  5:42 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-21  0:49 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-21 23:47   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-25  2:45     ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-25  4:11       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-25 22:58         ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-26  9:46           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27  9:36             ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-27  9:45               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 11:14                 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-27 11:36                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-02 10:52                     ` Takao Indoh
2003-09-02 11:30                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-02 17:21                       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 16:01                 ` Joseph Malicki
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2003-08-21  9:52   ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-25  7:17     ` Takao Indoh
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     [not found]     ` <oyDw.5FP.33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-26 10:15       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-26 17:46         ` Mike Fedyk
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     [not found]       ` <oJ5P.699.19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <oQh2.4bQ.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-26 19:08           ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-26 19:23             ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 10:21               ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-27 11:07                 ` Nick Piggin
     [not found] <000801c36cb1$454d4950$1001a8c0@etofmv650>
2003-08-27 16:02 ` YoshiyaETO
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-27 16:03 Joseph Malicki

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