From: Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM problems in 2.4.20
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:51:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030226215156.GB14293@flounder.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302262101.57367.m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:04:52PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:40, Adam McKenna wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> > I'm having a VM issue on one of my servers running 2.4.20.
> well, the vanilla VM, hmm, sorry: sucks :) for large boxen.
Can you expand on "sucks"? 4GB is not really that large of a system anymore.
I still don't see how this memory taken up by buffers/cache is not freed when
a system process needs it. I have always thought that this type of memory is
by definition "lower priority", and should be dropped when a process needs
more memory. Is this not the case?
--Adam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-26 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-26 19:40 Adam McKenna
2003-02-26 20:04 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-26 21:51 ` Adam McKenna [this message]
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