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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:39:37 +0100
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: rwhron@earthlink.net
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Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:38:54 -0500
rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:

> In the experiment above, it appears the rc2aa2 VM shinks slabs and 
> page/buffer caches in a reasonable way when a process needs a lot
> of memory.

Hello Randy,

can you please try The Same Thing while copying large files around in the
background (lets say 100MB files) and re-comment.

Thanks,
Stephan

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