From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.1.110 freepages.min change
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:43:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199807231443.PAA08910@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980722222736.49195@boole.suse.de>
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:27:36 +0200, "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> said:
> The change in fs/dcache.c does not look very well because
> as higher the number given to prune_dache in shrink_dcache_memory
> as more the dcache is pruned ... `0' isn't that good is it?
Werner, have you given it a shot? With this fix in place, the
dcache/inode fragmentation issues in 2.1 are very dramatically improved
on low memory. I'm very pleased indeed with this patch: even if it's
only prune_dcache(0), it is still being called much more often when we
get short of memory.
--Stephen
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1998-07-22 20:27 ` 2.1.110 freepages.min change Dr. Werner Fink
1998-07-23 14:43 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
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