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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:52:54 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>,
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19rc2aa1 VM too aggressive?
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:07:07PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2002, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> 
> > Notice you're memory utilization jumps here as your free is given to
> > cache.
> 
> Swinging back and forth 150 MB per second seems a bit excessive
> for that, especially considering that the previously cached
> memory seems to end up on the free list and the fact that there
> is between 350 and 500 MB free memory.

if the app allocates and frees 150MB of shm per second that's what the
kernel has to show you.

Andrea
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