Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:07:31 +0200 | From | Paolo Ornati <> | Subject | Re: Kernel cached memory |
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:47:50 -0400 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> And IMHO Linux is *way* too willing to evicy clean pages of my > programs to use as disk buffer, so that when system memory is full I > pay the overhead of TWO disk i/o's, one to finally write the data to > the disk and one to read my program back in. If free software is > about choice, I wish there was more in the area of how memory is > used.
isn't this tuned enough by "/proc/sys/vm/swappiness" ?
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