On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
In our memory manager, there is a point where often used
"file cache" (ie. unmapped cache) is considered preferable
to unused or little used "application memory" (mapped
memory).
Sure - and indeed I have current swap usage (now that I am not doing
anything) of 300MB - that's good because I am not using whatever's in
there.
I missed the description of your exact problem... was it in
this thread somewhere? Testing 2.6 would be appreciated if
possible too.
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.3/1033.html
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.3/1394.html
In short: I have 512MB RAM. The files I am reading are read over NFS,