On Sun, 20 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On 20 May 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>
> > > Also in all recent kernels, if the machine is swapping, swap cache
> > > grows without limits and is hard to recycle, but then again that is
> > > a known problem.
> >
> > This one bugs me. I do not see that and can't understand why.
>
> Could it be because we never free swap space and never
> delete pages from the swap cache ?
I sent a query to the list asking if a heavy load cleared it out,
but got no replies. I figured about the only thing it could be
is that under light load, reclaim isn't needed to cure and shortage.
-Mike
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