Re: Over used cache memory?

[jlnance]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:14:32PM +0100, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:40, jlnance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > If anyone has any ideas about this, I would love to hear them.
> 

> most likely it's copying a fsck load of that file in to anonymous
> mappings, causing swapping.

Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunatly thats not it.  I can reproduce this
problem with a little program that appends data to a file and every so
often seeks back to the beginning of the file and scribbles a little there.

Thanks,

Jim
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