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

Paul Mackerras
2004-04-29T01:38:01Z

I wrote:

> What I have noticed with 2.6.6-rc1 on my dual G5 is that if I rsync a
> gigabyte or so of data over to another machine, it then takes several
> seconds to change focus from one window to another. I can see it
> slowly redraw the window title bars. It looks like the window manager
> is getting swapped/paged out.

I meant to add that this is with swappiness = 60.

Paul.