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

[Timothy Miller]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Multimedia content (jpegs etc) is typically cached in
> > filesystem, so Mozilla polluted pagecache with it when
> > it saved JPEGs to the cache *and* then it keeps 'em in RAM
> > too, which doubles RAM usage. 
>
>
> well if mozilla just mmap's the jpegs there is no double caching .....


What is cached in memory?  The original JPEG or the decoded raw image?

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