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Message-ID: <46A845BB.9080503@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:56:59 +0200
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To: Bongani Hlope <bhlope@...b.co.za>
CC: Robert Deaton <false.hopes@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: updatedb
On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote:
>> So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op "top" in one terminal
>> and updatedb in another, what does it show?
> Just tested that, there's a steady increase in the useage of buff
Great. Now concentrate on the "swpd" column, as it's the only thing relevant
here. The fact that an updatedb run fills/replaces caches is completely and
utterly unsurprising and not something swap-prefetch helps with. The only
thing it does is bring back stuff from _swap_.
Rene.
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