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

Andrew Morton
2004-04-29T02:45:48Z

Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > IMHO, the VM on a desktop system really should be optimised to
> > > have the best interactive behaviour, meaning decent latency
> > > when switching applications.
> >
> > I'm gonna stick my fingers in my ears and sing "la la la" until people tell
> > me "I set swappiness to zero and it didn't do what I wanted it to do".
>
> Agreed, you shouldn't be the one to fix this problem.
>

What problem?