On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:13:19 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:
> Data that is swap-cached is also (erroneously?) reported as
> page cache. I think we should either change the code or the
> documentation... Opinions?
We have a "unified VM". The VM is unified with the data cache.
That's what the page cache _is_. Document it, sure; add an extra line
in the "free" output showing (cache-shared) to make this explicit,
fine; but I don't think we need to change the accounting.
--Stephen
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