Messages in this thread | | | From | "M. Edward Borasky" <> | Subject | RE: 2.4.16 memory badness (fixed?) | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:29:05 -0800 |
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> -----Original Message----- > I just can't understand why the kernel wouldn't tag application memory > as being more important than buff/cache and free up some of that stuff > when an application calls for it. I mean, it won't even use the gobs of > swap I have. That just seems to be a plain ol' bug to me.
It's not strictly a bug ... it's a design decision that has unfortunate consequences. A simple fix would be to allow the system administrator to set an upper limit on the size of the page cache. -- M. Edward Borasky znmeb@@borasky-research.net http://www.borasky-research.net
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