Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:38:23 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell |
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Paul Jackson wrote:
> Heh - indeed perhaps the answer is closer than I realize. For SGI's big > NUMA boxes, managing memory placement is sufficiently critical that we > are inventing or encouraging ways (such as Andi Kleen's numa stuff) to > control memory placement per node per job. Perhaps this needs to be > extended to portions of a node (this job can only use 1 Gb of the memory > on that 2 Gb node) and to other memory uses (file cache, not just user > space memory). >
Is updatedb run with a nice level greater than zero?
Perhaps nice level could influence how much a process is allowed to affect page cache.
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