Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759780AbWLDE7x (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:59:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759796AbWLDE7x (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:59:53 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:4789 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759780AbWLDE7w (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:59:52 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:59:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Cc: "'Tim Schmielau'" , , , Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness Message-Id: <20061203205947.a0cf92e5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200612040154.kB41sadx019068@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com> References: <200612040154.kB41sadx019068@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-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: 567 Lines: 13 On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:54:41 -0600 "Aucoin" wrote: > What, if anything, besides manually echoing a "3" to drop_caches will cause > all those inactive pages to be put back on the free list ? There is no reason for the kernel to do that - a clean, inactive page is immediately reclaimable on demand. - 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/