Re: la la la la ... swappiness

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Dec 04 2006 - 00:00:20 EST


On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:54:41 -0600
"Aucoin" <Aucoin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What, if anything, besides manually echoing a "3" to drop_caches will cause
> all those inactive pages to be put back on the free list ?

There is no reason for the kernel to do that - a clean, inactive page is
immediately reclaimable on demand.
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