Re: My memory is rusty

Colin Plumb (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 02:25:47 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> Bill is right, or we are both wrong :) I noticed this too in 2.1.4x ..
> After a few days of uptime with no intensive processes running, it felt
> really sluggish due to swapping. Actually, I do remember once that I left
> the kernel idling on one of the boxen (dx4, 12mb i think), came to have a
> look in the morning, and this was the behaviour I encountered.

Part of this might have been because of the new dcache code.. Many linux
systems run a find / overnight and this would swell the dcache.. In the
earley dcache kernels the dcache was too ram greedy and wouldn't shrink
well.. :)

Dcache was introduced in .42 I believe..

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