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

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 07 May 2004 11:57, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Perhaps what we really want is "swap_back_in" script? That way you
> > > could do "updatedb; swap_back_in" in cron and be happy.
> >
> > swapoff -a; swapon -a
>
> Good point... it will not bring back executable pages, through.
>
> 								Pavel

What would the above do if there wasn't enough memory to swap everything back 
in?  (Presumably, the swapoff would fail?)

Rob

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