Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 26 May 2004 16:11:27 -0400 | | From | Wakko Warner <> | | Subject | Re: why swap at all? |
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> > Come on, that is quite an exaggeration. It can happen in a span of > > minutes -- after rsyncing a dir to a backup dir, for example, which > > fills ram rather quickly with cache I'll never use again. Or after > > configuring and compiling a package, which does the same thing. > > > > rsync is something known to break the VM's use-once heuristics. > I'm looking at that.
I have a question about that. I keep a debian mirror on one of my machines. there is over 70000 files. If I run find on that tree while it's downloading the file list, it doesn't take as long. I thought it would be nice if there was some way I could keep that in memory. The box has 256mb ram no swap. It is configured as diskless. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - 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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