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

Rik van Riel
2004-04-29T02:42:12Z

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.

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