Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:18:28 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell |
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--On Thursday, April 29, 2004 16:01:11 -0400 Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> said: > > [...] > >> 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? > > How on earth is the kernel supposed to know that for this one particular > job you don't care if it takes 3 hours instead of 10 minutes, just because > you don't want to spare enough preciousss RAM?
Nice value is the obvious interface for such information.
M.
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