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On 07/27/2007 09:43 PM, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > >> On 07/27/2007 07:45 PM, Daniel Hazelton wrote: >> >>> Questions about it: >>> Q) Does swap-prefetch help with this? >>> A) [From all reports I've seen (*)] >>> Yes, it does. >> >> No it does not. If updatedb filled memory to the point of causing >> swapping (which noone is reproducing anyway) it HAS FILLED MEMORY and >> swap-prefetch hasn't any memory to prefetch into -- updatedb itself >> doesn't use any significant memory. > > however there are other programs which are known to take up significant > amounts of memory and will cause the issue being described (openoffice > for example) > > please don't get hung up on the text 'updatedb' and accept that there > are programs that do run intermittently and do use a significant amount > of ram and then free it. Different issue. One that's worth pursueing perhaps, but a different issue from the VFS caches issue that people have been trying to track down. Rene. - 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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