Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262605AbUD2BtD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:49:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262866AbUD2BtD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:49:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:6532 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262605AbUD2BtA (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:49:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:47:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Andrew Morton cc: Jeff Garzik , , Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell In-Reply-To: <20040428184008.226bd52d.akpm@osdl.org> 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 Content-Length: 827 Lines: 20 On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > OK, so it takes four seconds to swap mozilla back in, and you noticed it. > > Did you notice that those three kernel builds you just did ran in twenty > seconds less time because they had more cache available? Nope. That's exactly why desktops should be optimised to give the best performance where the user notices it most... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/