Re: 2.4.19rc2aa1 VM too aggressive?

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:07:07PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2002, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> 
> > Notice you're memory utilization jumps here as your free is given to
> > cache.
> 
> Swinging back and forth 150 MB per second seems a bit excessive
> for that, especially considering that the previously cached
> memory seems to end up on the free list and the fact that there
> is between 350 and 500 MB free memory.

if the app allocates and frees 150MB of shm per second that's what the
kernel has to show you.

Andrea