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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:59:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> To: <Aucoin@...ston.RR.com> Cc: "'Tim Schmielau'" <tim@...sik3.uni-rostock.de>, <torvalds@...l.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <clameter@....com> Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:54:41 -0600 "Aucoin" <Aucoin@...ston.RR.com> wrote: > What, if anything, besides manually echoing a "3" to drop_caches will cause > all those inactive pages to be put back on the free list ? There is no reason for the kernel to do that - a clean, inactive page is immediately reclaimable on demand. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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