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

[Horst von Brand]

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> I don't know. What if you have some huge application that only
> runs once per day for 10 minutes? Do you want it to be consuming
> 100MB of your memory for the other 23 hours and 50 minutes for
> no good reason?

How on earth is the kernel supposed to know that for this one particular
job you don't care if it takes 3 hours instead of 10 minutes, just because
you don't want to spare enough preciousss RAM?
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