Re: 2.2.0-pre4 and caching

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:58:49 +0000 (GMT)

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> My system has 40M RAM, but even under load, 2.2.0 kernels prefer to
> swap pages, rather than trim cache, which doesn't go below
> 20M. This seem to be broken. I can't see any effect of setting
> /proc/sys/vm/pagecache to however low values I tried. What can I
> check else?

It is broken basically. But its heading in the right direction. If you want
to play with this get the latest of Andrea's VM patches for 2.2.0pre4

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