Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:44:18 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: [VM] 2.4.14/15-pre4 too "swap-happy"? |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, janne wrote:
> to followup to my previous post: i don't know how the current code > works, but perhaps there should be some logic added to check the > percentage of total mem used for cache before swapping out.
No.
> like, if memory is full and there's less than 10% of total mem used for > cache, then start swapping out. not if ~90% is already used for cache.. :)
Numbers like this don't work. You may have a very large and very hot cache.. you may also have a very large and hot gob of anonymous pages.
-Mike
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