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

[Martin J. Bligh]

--On Thursday, April 29, 2004 16:01:11 -0400 Horst von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> I don't know. What if you have some huge application that only
>> runs once per day for 10 minutes? Do you want it to be consuming
>> 100MB of your memory for the other 23 hours and 50 minutes for
>> no good reason?
> 
> How on earth is the kernel supposed to know that for this one particular
> job you don't care if it takes 3 hours instead of 10 minutes, just because
> you don't want to spare enough preciousss RAM?

Nice value is the obvious interface for such information.

M.

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