Re: updatedb

[Rene Herman]

On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote:

> On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote:

> > So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op "top" in one terminal
> > and updatedb in another, what does it show?

> Just tested that, there's a steady increase in the useage of buff

Great. Now concentrate on the "swpd" column, as it's the only thing relevant 
here. The fact that an updatedb run fills/replaces caches is completely and 
utterly unsurprising and not something swap-prefetch helps with. The only 
thing it does is bring back stuff from _swap_.

Rene.

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