Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:35:41 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell |
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Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:57:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > IMHO, the VM on a desktop system really should be optimised to > > > have the best interactive behaviour, meaning decent latency > > > when switching applications. > > > > I'm gonna stick my fingers in my ears and sing "la la la" until people tell > > me "I set swappiness to zero and it didn't do what I wanted it to do". > > It does, but it's a bit too coarse of a solution. It just means that > the page cache always loses.
That's what people have been asking for. What are you suggesting should happen instead?
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