Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262768AbUD2BiB (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:38:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262605AbUD2Bhp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:37:45 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:44991 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262931AbUD2BfC (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:35:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16528.23304.760917.196324@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:31:52 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Andrew Morton Cc: brettspamacct@fastclick.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell In-Reply-To: <16528.23219.17557.608276@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <409021D3.4060305@fastclick.com> <20040428170106.122fd94e.akpm@osdl.org> <409047E6.5000505@pobox.com> <40905127.3000001@fastclick.com> <20040428180038.73a38683.akpm@osdl.org> <16528.23219.17557.608276@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 629 Lines: 16 I wrote: > What I have noticed with 2.6.6-rc1 on my dual G5 is that if I rsync a > gigabyte or so of data over to another machine, it then takes several > seconds to change focus from one window to another. I can see it > slowly redraw the window title bars. It looks like the window manager > is getting swapped/paged out. I meant to add that this is with swappiness = 60. Paul. - 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/