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Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> said on Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:54:36 +1000: > Wakko Warner wrote: > >>I don't know. What if you have some huge application that only > >>runs once per day for 10 minutes? Do you want it to be consuming > >>100MB of your memory for the other 23 hours and 50 minutes for > >>no good reason? > > > > > > I keep soffice open all the time. The box in question has 512mb of ram. > > This is one app, even though I use it infrequently, would prefer that it > > never be swapped out. Mainly when I want to use it, I *WANT* it now (ie not > > waiting for it to come back from swap) > > > > This is just my oppinion. I personally feel that cache should use available > > memory, not already used memory (swapping apps out for more cache). > > > > On the other hand, suppose that with soffice resident the entire > time, you don't have enough memory to cache an entire kernel tree > (or video you are editing, or whatever). For the kernel example, I only ever compile once before rebooting[1] :) This I think is the kind of thing that a kernel will never automatically detect. This *must* be in the hands of the administrator, who will know what they are doing (hopefully). [1] I have never had enough memory on machines that I use to compile kernels, to cache an entire tree anyway -- I'd much rather mozilla use it than a cache which will never be reused -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ [transporting bed]... across several suburbs and a large salt water harbour. Well, they thoughtfully bridged the harbour in the 1930s, so the problem was actually transporting it across several suburbs and a long single span bridge. -- Hipatia - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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