Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 1998 16:15:25 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [2.1.131-ac5] MM Experience with X in 6,8 Megs RAM (page cache too large ?) |
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On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:13:19 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel > <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said: > > > Data that is swap-cached is also (erroneously?) reported as > > page cache. I think we should either change the code or the > > documentation... Opinions? > > We have a "unified VM". The VM is unified with the data cache. > That's what the page cache _is_. Document it, sure; add an extra line > in the "free" output showing (cache-shared) to make this explicit, > fine; but I don't think we need to change the accounting.
Current behaviour is more than OK, yes, but the stats are rather confusing... That's what I wanted to fix :)
cheers,
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