Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262434AbUD2Chn (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:37:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262441AbUD2Chm (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:37:42 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:26545 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262434AbUD2Chi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:37:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:35:41 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Marc Singer Cc: riel@redhat.com, brettspamacct@fastclick.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell Message-Id: <20040428193541.1e2cf489.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040429022944.GA24000@buici.com> References: <20040428180038.73a38683.akpm@osdl.org> <20040428185720.07a3da4d.akpm@osdl.org> <20040429022944.GA24000@buici.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 23 Marc Singer wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:57:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > IMHO, the VM on a desktop system really should be optimised to > > > have the best interactive behaviour, meaning decent latency > > > when switching applications. > > > > I'm gonna stick my fingers in my ears and sing "la la la" until people tell > > me "I set swappiness to zero and it didn't do what I wanted it to do". > > It does, but it's a bit too coarse of a solution. It just means that > the page cache always loses. That's what people have been asking for. What are you suggesting should happen instead? - 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/