Re: 2.2.9 swaps a lot

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sun, 16 May 1999 21:43:56 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 16 May 1999, Giuliano Pochini wrote:

>It seems that this behaviour started with v.2.2.7. For example I
>noticed
>that linux swaps even if there still is a lot of free memory !! When I
>play CD tracks stored on my HD, buffer entry increases until it fills
>all
>available memory, then it start swapping.
>Strange. IMHO it's a bug.

Could you try the buffer patch I posted to the list yesterday?

Andrea Arcangeli

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