Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:14:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:14:05 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:5256 "EHLO e31.bld.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:13:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:15:12 -0300 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: "J . A . Magallon" cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: swap still stuck In-Reply-To: <20010221001406.A1035@werewolf.able.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > I seem to have again a problem that was talked about on the > list, but I thought it was yet corrected with some VM constants > balancing. > Why system does not try to drop read buffer pages before swapping ? Actually, I've also started receiving complaints that the system keeps processes in memory too much and evicts the cache from memory too soon... It all depends on what kind of workload you are using. In the current 2.4 VM, I have not found a way to make this balancing do the right thing automatically. If anybody has an idea (or a patch) to make this thing work, let me know. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/