Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell

[Marc Singer]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:57:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  IMHO, the VM on a desktop system really should be optimised to
> >  have the best interactive behaviour, meaning decent latency
> >  when switching applications.
> 
> I'm gonna stick my fingers in my ears and sing "la la la" until people tell
> me "I set swappiness to zero and it didn't do what I wanted it to do".

It does, but it's a bit too coarse of a solution.  It just means that
the page cache always loses.

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