Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Date | 16 Sep 2001 11:23:54 -0400 |
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Is there a way to tell the VM to prune its cache? Or a way to limit the amount of cache it uses?
On 16 Sep 2001 17:19:43 +0200, Ricardo Galli wrote: > > So whether Linux uses swap or not is a 100% meaningless indicator of > > "goodness". The only thing that matters is how well the job gets done, > > ie was it reasonably responsive, and did the big untars finish quickly.. > > I am running 2.4.9 on a PII with 448MB RAM. After listening a couple of > hours MP3 from the /dev/cdrom and KDE started, more than 70MB went to > swap, about 300 MB in cache and KDE takes about 15-20 seconds just for > logging out and showing the greeting console. > > Obviously, all apps went to disk to leave space for caching mp3 files that > are read only once. Altough logging out is not a very often process... > > Regards, > > > --ricardo > > > - > 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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