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

[Timothy Miller]

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

Wouldn't this also be a problem if you are using more memory than you 
have physical RAM?

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