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

Andrew Morton
2004-04-29T02:01:47Z

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".