Andrew Morton ([email protected]) said:
> > Test box is a 1.5GB laptop.
> >
> > In typical use, I would open a mailbox A, and then switch
> > to mailbox B. Immediately switching back to mailbox A, I
> > would find out it was no longer cached. (Using maildirs,
> > FWIW.)
> >
> > Looking at /proc/meminfo, I would see:
> >
> > LowFree: 8-12MB
> > HighFree: 300-400MB
> > Cached: 100-200MB
> >
> > i.e., it was evicting cache when there was plenty of highmem
> > available for use.
>
> Where's the rest of the memory gone? A full /proc/meminfo would be useful.
In the manner of all good bugs, as soon as I tried to reproduce it, it's
hiding. I can get it to this point (very little lowfree, lots of highfree,
medium amounts of cache); but now the cache is behaving more as expected.
Feel free to ignore it until I can duplicate it again. :)
Bill
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