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

Andrew Morton
2004-04-29T01:03:09Z

"Brett E." <brettspamacct@fastclick.com> wrote:
>
> Or how about "Use ALL the cache you want Mr. Kernel. But when I want
> more physical memory pages, just reap cache pages and only swap out when
> the cache is down to a certain size(configurable, say 100megs or
> something)."

Have you tried decreasing /proc/sys/vm/swappiness? That's what it is for.

My point is that decreasing the tendency of the kernel to swap stuff out is
wrong. You really don't want hundreds of megabytes of BloatyApp's
untouched memory floating about in the machine. Get it out on the disk,
use the memory for something useful.