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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Swap
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 19 Nov 2001 19:49:58 -0700
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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> On 19 Nov 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > > Is there a way to limit the size of the cache?
> >
> > Reasonable.  It looks like the use once heuristics are failing for your
> > mp3 files.   Find out why that is happening and they should push the
> > rest of your system into swap.
> 
> I bet they're getting mmap()d, like all mp3 programs seem to do  ;)

That would probably do it.  Though it is puzzling why after the file
is munmaped it's pages aren't recycled.

Eric
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