Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265120AbUD3QOb (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265107AbUD3QOb (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:14:31 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:61456 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265151AbUD3QOX (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:14:23 -0400 Message-ID: <40927C7A.3030702@techsource.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:19:06 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arjanv@redhat.com CC: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, Tim Connors , Nick Piggin , Horst von Brand , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , brettspamacct@fastclick.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell References: <40904A84.2030307@yahoo.com.au> <200404292001.i3TK1BYe005147@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> <4091F38C.3010400@yahoo.com.au> <18781898240.20040430121833@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <1083317615.4633.7.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> In-Reply-To: <1083317615.4633.7.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> 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: 633 Lines: 20 Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>Multimedia content (jpegs etc) is typically cached in >>filesystem, so Mozilla polluted pagecache with it when >>it saved JPEGs to the cache *and* then it keeps 'em in RAM >>too, which doubles RAM usage. > > > well if mozilla just mmap's the jpegs there is no double caching ..... > What is cached in memory? The original JPEG or the decoded raw image? - 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/