Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:50:59 -0400
From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
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> I don't know. What if you have some huge application that only
> runs once per day for 10 minutes? Do you want it to be consuming
> 100MB of your memory for the other 23 hours and 50 minutes for
> no good reason?

I keep soffice open all the time.  The box in question has 512mb of ram. 
This is one app, even though I use it infrequently, would prefer that it
never be swapped out.  Mainly when I want to use it, I *WANT* it now (ie not
waiting for it to come back from swap)

This is just my oppinion.  I personally feel that cache should use available
memory, not already used memory (swapping apps out for more cache).

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