Re: Latency data - 2.6.14-rc3-rt13

From: Steven Rostedt (rostedt_at_goodmis.org)
Date: 10/12/05

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    Date:	Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:03:40 -0400 (EDT)
    To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
    
    

    On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Lee Revell wrote:

    >
    > I believe this is the expected behavior under 2.6 unless you
    > set /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 0. If an app allocates memory and then
    > never touches it then those pages will eventually be swapped out to make
    > room for hot ones.
    >

    OK, thanks for the info. I guess my apps don't allocate enough memory to
    be eventually swapped out (I obviously run 2.6). Or those apps use the
    memory that it allocates often.

    Whatever..

    -- Steve

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