From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:47:46 -0500
To: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>
Cc: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Over used cache memory?
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:14:32PM +0100, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:40, jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:
> > If anyone has any ideas about this, I would love to hear them.
> 

> most likely it's copying a fsck load of that file in to anonymous
> mappings, causing swapping.

Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunatly thats not it.  I can reproduce this
problem with a little program that appends data to a file and every so
often seeks back to the beginning of the file and scribbles a little there.

Thanks,

Jim
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