Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:14:33 -0700 (MST) | From | Craig Kulesa <> | Subject | Re: Unfreed kernel buffers (fsck and 2.3.99-pre*) |
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Summary: If I open a suitably large text file in Emacs, and the system > > swaps liberally, and the application is closed -- those swapped pages are > > not immediately released in 2.3.99-pre* (up to pre3-5), but only upon > > "demand". > > Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this. Here, after a day > of swap testing, I ended up with 100meg of something unidentifiable > hanging out in swap. > > I think that this is a problem. If I bloat up swap with netscape, [...]
The vm changes between pre3-5 and pre3-7 seems to have eliminated this issue for me. If I do the same test as before, swap goes from 23 MB committed quickly back to only 4 MB after emacs closure, not 17 MB as it did in pre3-5. It now works much better for me; there's nothing like putting the system under memory load and seeing that it still has to deal with the cruft from the last serious operation. Which was why I inquired about it. :)
So, does pre3-7+ help you in this regard?
Craig Kulesa ckulesa@as.arizona.edu
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