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

Martin J. Bligh
2004-04-29T20:20:37Z

--On Thursday, April 29, 2004 16:01:11 -0400 Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:

> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> said:
>
> [...]
>
>> I don't know. What if you have some huge application that only
>> runs once per day for 10 minutes? Do you want it to be consuming
>> 100MB of your memory for the other 23 hours and 50 minutes for
>> no good reason?
>
> How on earth is the kernel supposed to know that for this one particular
> job you don't care if it takes 3 hours instead of 10 minutes, just because
> you don't want to spare enough preciousss RAM?

Nice value is the obvious interface for such information.

M.