From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
To: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cache limit
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:52:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F449674.2040102@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mLY8.dO.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Takao Indoh wrote:
>
> I made a patch to add new paramter /proc/sys/vm/pgcache-max. It controls
> maximum number of pages used as pagecache.
> An attached file is a mere test patch, so it may contain a bug or ugly
> code. Please let me know if there is an advice, comment, better
> implementation, and so on.
>
Do you have something like this for 2.4 kernels?
[ I expected to find that by default Linux stops polluting memory
with cache when there is no more pages. But as I see your patch is
hacking something somewhere in the middle... But I'm not a specialist in
VM... Gone reading sources. ]
Thanks for the patch.
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-21 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-08-21 9:52 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau [this message]
2003-08-25 7:17 ` cache limit Takao Indoh
2003-08-27 16:03 Joseph Malicki
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2003-08-27 16:02 ` YoshiyaETO
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2003-08-26 19:08 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-26 19:23 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 10:21 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-27 11:07 ` Nick Piggin
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2003-08-26 10:15 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-26 17:46 ` Mike Fedyk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-19 4:39 Anthony R.
2003-08-19 4:57 ` Nuno Silva
2003-08-19 5:33 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-08-19 6:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 9:05 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-08-19 9:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 9:28 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-08-19 9:43 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 13:32 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-19 20:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 14:28 ` Anthony R.
2003-08-19 18:26 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-19 5:42 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-21 0:49 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-21 23:47 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-25 2:45 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-25 4:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-25 22:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-26 9:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 9:36 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-27 9:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 11:14 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-27 11:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-02 10:52 ` Takao Indoh
2003-09-02 11:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-02 17:21 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 16:01 ` Joseph Malicki
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