> > Specifically, how a swaping system determine which page should be > swapped out when memory is tight? LRU, f.ex. > Intuitively, I think inode cache > pages should be swapped out as late as possible. I believe they are not swapped at all - they are shrunk when memory becomes a premium. (If this was a math class I'd say the cache size will be zero, although that's not too realistic in practice) > But how Linux mkae > decision on this? Why linux does not pin inode pages in the memory? Ugh hell no. Then you could trigger OOM by simply walking a big filesystem. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
