Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plansfor 2.6.23]

[Rene Herman]

On 07/27/2007 09:43 PM, david@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
>
> > On 07/27/2007 07:45 PM, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> >
> > >  Questions about it:
> > >  Q) Does swap-prefetch help with this?
> > >  A) [From all reports I've seen (*)]
> > >  Yes, it does. 
> >
> > No it does not. If updatedb filled memory to the point of causing 
> > swapping (which noone is reproducing anyway) it HAS FILLED MEMORY and 
> > swap-prefetch hasn't any memory to prefetch into -- updatedb itself 
> > doesn't use any significant memory.
>
> however there are other programs which are known to take up significant 
> amounts of memory and will cause the issue being described (openoffice 
> for example)
>
> please don't get hung up on the text 'updatedb' and accept that there 
> are programs that do run intermittently and do use a significant amount 
> of ram and then free it.

Different issue. One that's worth pursueing perhaps, but a different issue 
from the VFS caches issue that people have been trying to track down.

Rene.
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