Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:44:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:44:02 -0400 Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net ([216.254.0.211]:58092 "EHLO mail.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:44:01 -0400 Subject: RE: About the need of a swap area From: Ed Sweetman To: Rik van Riel Cc: Buddy Lumpkin , Ville Herva , Linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 28 Jul 2002 15:47:20 -0400 Message-Id: <1027885641.4228.143.camel@psuedomode> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 874 Lines: 26 On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 15:29, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 28 Jul 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote: > > > If you bother to do any real tests you'd see that linux will swap when > > nothing is going on and this doesn't hinder anything. > > Linux only puts pages in swap when it's low on free physical memory. Perhaps, but linux considers disk cache as "in use" memory and most people would consider it free memory that's just temporarily being taken advantage of "in case". Linux will still swap even if 60% of ram is filesystem cache. I dont have a problem with it, was just stating some real observations. > regards, > > Rik > -- - 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/