Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell

[Andrew Morton]

Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >  IMHO, the VM on a desktop system really should be optimised to
> > >  have the best interactive behaviour, meaning decent latency
> > >  when switching applications.
> > 
> > I'm gonna stick my fingers in my ears and sing "la la la" until people tell
> > me "I set swappiness to zero and it didn't do what I wanted it to do".
> 
> Agreed, you shouldn't be the one to fix this problem.
> 

What problem?
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