Re: [BENCHMARK] vm swappiness with contest

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:26:00 -0800


Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> ...
> Is there something about the filesystem layer or elsewhere in the kernel that
> could decay or fragment over time that only a reboot can fix? This would seem
> to be a bad thing.

Not much that I can think of. Apart from a damn great memory leak
somewhere.

Suggest you perform a few runs, keeping an eye on the vm statistics
after each run.
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