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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: "U.Mutlu" <for-gmane@mutluit.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck memory leak
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 17:03:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204220329.GT23754@vapier.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n3st78$77b$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On 04 Dec 2015 21:31, U.Mutlu wrote:
> I think it's a double-edged sword: if user has less memory then
> the integrated caching will IMO degrade the performance.

it is not.  the user doesn't have less memory -- if the user requests pages
and there aren't enough free, then the caches will automatically be trimmed
to satisfy the request.  (obviously i'm glossing over details, but i think
this is sufficient based on the quested generalization.)
-mike

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04  7:15 fsck memory leak U.Mutlu
2015-12-04  7:49 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 10:21   ` Karel Zak
2015-12-04 18:00     ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 15:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 17:53   ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 19:09     ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 19:58     ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 20:31       ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 21:40         ` Ruediger Meier
2015-12-04 22:26           ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 22:03         ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2015-12-04 22:17         ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 22:01       ` Mike Frysinger
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2015-12-04 23:08 Dave Rutherford

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