Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Marc Singer wrote:
> I'm thinking that the problem is that the page cache is greedier that
> most people expect.  For example, if I could hold the page cache to be
> under a specific size, then I could do some performance measurements.

It is actually greedy enough that when my nightly cron starts I suddenly
see apache and pdns_recursor being killed consistently every day. 

Wichert.

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