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

Timothy Miller
2004-04-30T16:14:31Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>Multimedia content (jpegs etc) is typically cached in
>>filesystem, so Mozilla polluted pagecache with it when
>>it saved JPEGs to the cache *and* then it keeps 'em in RAM
>>too, which doubles RAM usage.
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> well if mozilla just mmap's the jpegs there is no double caching .....
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What is cached in memory? The original JPEG or the decoded raw image?