Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264955AbUD2UDN (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:03:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264958AbUD2UDN (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:03:13 -0400 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:7842 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264955AbUD2UCm (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:02:42 -0400 Message-Id: <200404292001.i3TK1BYe005147@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> To: Nick Piggin Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , brettspamacct@fastclick.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:21:24 +1000." <40904A84.2030307@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 14) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:01:11 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 22 Nick Piggin said: [...] > 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? How on earth is the kernel supposed to know that for this one particular job you don't care if it takes 3 hours instead of 10 minutes, just because you don't want to spare enough preciousss RAM? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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/