Re: Useless kernel caching is annoying me

29/09/02 12:50:08, Nadav Har'El 
<nyh-TS7m/3hpY0sOpacJJkBjfT4kX+cae0hd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi people, I have a question that has been bugging me for quite some time
>now.
>
>I'm using Redhat 7.3 and its 2.4.18-3 kernel. I have 128MB of RAM. I
>frequently use memory-hogging applications such as Mozilla and OpenOffice.
>
>The phenomenon that annoys me is that many times, after I've left one of
>these applications for a bit of time (say, an hour), returning to it requires
>a huge amount of swapping and sometimes as much as 10 seconds of wait.
>

That's kind of odd, especially since programs like winamp and xmms don't cache
all the files at once. It shouldn't be such a big deal....
Then again, some people have claimed that linux's VM sux, especially in 
comparison
to the BSD unices memory management. Who knows, i sure don't...

All I know is that the mp3 players don't keep a big memory signature..

Eli

"There's so many different worlds
 So many different suns
 And we have just one world
 But we live in different ones.."
 
 - Dire Straits




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