Re: Swap

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
19 Nov 2001 19:49:58 -0700


Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> On 19 Nov 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> I bet they're getting mmap()d, like all mp3 programs seem to do ;)

That would probably do it. Though it is puzzling why after the file
is munmaped it's pages aren't recycled.

Eric
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