Re: la la la la ... swappiness

Andrew Morton
2006-12-04T04:59:53Z

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:54:41 -0600
"Aucoin" <Aucoin@Houston.RR.com> wrote:

> What, if anything, besides manually echoing a "3" to drop_caches will cause
> all those inactive pages to be put back on the free list ?

There is no reason for the kernel to do that - a clean, inactive page is
immediately reclaimable on demand.