Re: Swap

[James A Sutherland]

On Monday 19 November 2001 6:12 pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Erik Gustavsson <[e-mail]> writes:
> > I agree...   After a while it always seems that 80% or more of my RAM is
> > used for cache and buffers while my open, but not currently used apps
> > get pushed onto disk. Then when I decide to switch to that mozilla
> > window of emacs session I have to wait for it to be loaded from disk
> > again. Also considering the kind of disk activity this box has, the data
> > in the cache is mostly the last few hour's MP3's, in other words utterly
> > useless as that data will not be used again. I'd rather my apps stayed
> > in RAM...
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to limit the size of the cache?
>
> Reasonable.  It looks like the use once heuristics are failing for your
> mp3 files.   Find out why that is happening and they should push the
> rest of your system into swap.

Getting clobbered by the mp3 player accessing the ID3 tag? That way, at least 
part of the file is used twice, so use-ONCE won't matter...

James.