Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Apr 1998 02:25:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: My memory is rusty |
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > Bill is right, or we are both wrong :) I noticed this too in 2.1.4x .. > After a few days of uptime with no intensive processes running, it felt > really sluggish due to swapping. Actually, I do remember once that I left > the kernel idling on one of the boxen (dx4, 12mb i think), came to have a > look in the morning, and this was the behaviour I encountered.
Part of this might have been because of the new dcache code.. Many linux systems run a find / overnight and this would swell the dcache.. In the earley dcache kernels the dcache was too ram greedy and wouldn't shrink well.. :)
Dcache was introduced in .42 I believe..
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