Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I upgraded from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12rc1, the VM started > behaving really badly with respect to caching. > > Test box is a 1.5GB laptop. > > In typical use, I would open a mailbox A, and then switch > to mailbox B. Immediately switching back to mailbox A, I > would find out it was no longer cached. (Using maildirs, > FWIW.) > > Looking at /proc/meminfo, I would see: > > LowFree: 8-12MB > HighFree: 300-400MB > Cached: 100-200MB > > i.e., it was evicting cache when there was plenty of highmem > available for use.
Where's the rest of the memory gone? A full /proc/meminfo would be useful. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
