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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:18:16 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Peter Magnusson wrote:

> It treats the file system cache as important as normal programs and
> thats is very wrong. Its like this on all kernels over 2.4.7.

Nope, it was a bug in the page aging which caused the system
to treat file system cache as MORE important than programs.

I think I may have fixed that bug recently, I'm waiting for
Alan to run out of critical bugfixes so he has a suitable
moment to integrate it into -ac ;)

Until then, you can get the page aging patch from my home
page: http://www.surriel.com/patches/

cheers,

Rik
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