Subject: Re: buffer priority [Re: unified buffers and responsibility]
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/13/2002 16:06:29
> > Therefore the pages of running processes are being swapped out?
>
> But this shouldn't happen IMHO. The kernel should wait for the
> dirty buffer to be flushed, instead of paging out exec or data. This only
> increase the I/O load.

yes it SHOULD. but looks it's not doing that well