Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sun, 20 May 2001 18:37:46 -0300 (BRST)


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 ?

Rik

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