Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:28:58 -0400 | From | "Anthony R." <> | Subject | Re: cache limit |
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>>another program needs more memory, so it shouldn't swap, but that is not >>the >>behaviour I am seeing. >> >>Can anyone help point me in the right direction? >> >> > >I'd say stop allocating insane amounts of swap. >Frankly, with 2G you may run without swap at all. > > I'm not sure how you knew I had 2GB of swap. ;) I just always thought it was a good idea to have some just in case. I did not know having swap would actually, in some cases, degrade performance.
Are you saying that, if I turn off swap, the amount of cache used will be the same, but that when other programs need more memory, the kernel will take it from cache? If so, I will try, since that would be an ideal solution.
And while O_STREAMING sounds good, I'm not really up for rewriting all the rsync-like apps. I want my OS to deal with it.
Thanks.
-- tony "Surrender to the Void." -- John Lennon
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