From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org
Subject: bad caching behavior in 2.6.12rc1
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:27:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050324232731.GA14812@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
When I upgraded from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12rc1, the VM started
behaving really badly with respect to caching.
Test box is a 1.5GB laptop.
In typical use, I would open a mailbox A, and then switch
to mailbox B. Immediately switching back to mailbox A, I
would find out it was no longer cached. (Using maildirs,
FWIW.)
Looking at /proc/meminfo, I would see:
LowFree: 8-12MB
HighFree: 300-400MB
Cached: 100-200MB
i.e., it was evicting cache when there was plenty of highmem
available for use.
When going back to 2.6.11, and using the same sort of the
workload, the caching would behave more as expected.
Bill
next reply other threads:[~2005-03-24 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-24 23:27 Bill Nottingham [this message]
2005-03-24 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-25 17:52 ` Bill Nottingham
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