> -----Original Message-----
> I just can't understand why the kernel wouldn't tag application memory
> as being more important than buff/cache and free up some of that stuff
> when an application calls for it. I mean, it won't even use the gobs of
> swap I have. That just seems to be a plain ol' bug to me.
It's not strictly a bug ... it's a design decision that has unfortunate
consequences. A simple fix would be to allow the system administrator to set
an upper limit on the size of the page cache.
-- M. Edward Borasky znmeb@@borasky-research.net http://www.borasky-research.net- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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