Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262322AbUD2Axd (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:53:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262328AbUD2Axd (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:53:33 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:5592 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262322AbUD2Ax3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:53:29 -0400 Message-ID: <409051F1.80401@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:53:05 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wakko Warner CC: Nick Piggin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell References: <409021D3.4060305@fastclick.com> <20040428170106.122fd94e.akpm@osdl.org> <409047E6.5000505@pobox.com> <40904A84.2030307@yahoo.com.au> <20040428205059.A4563@animx.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20040428205059.A4563@animx.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 562 Lines: 17 Wakko Warner wrote: > This is just my oppinion. I personally feel that cache should use available > memory, not already used memory (swapping apps out for more cache). Strongly agreed, though there are pathological cases that prevent this from being something that's easy to implement on a global basis. Jeff - 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/