From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933198AbXAYEXN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:23:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752115AbXAYEXN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:23:13 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41326 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752114AbXAYEXM (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:23:12 -0500 Message-ID: <45B82FAB.9040205@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:18:51 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Aubrey Li , Vaidyanathan Srinivasan , Nick Piggin , Robin Getz , "Henn, erich, Michael" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Lameter wrote: > This is a patch using some of Aubrey's work plugging it in what is IMHO > the right way. Feel free to improve on it. I have gotten repeatedly > requests to be able to limit the pagecache. IMHO it's a bad hack. It would be better to identify the problem this "feature" is trying to fix, and then fix the root cause. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45B82FAB.9040205@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:18:51 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Aubrey Li , Vaidyanathan Srinivasan , Nick Piggin , Robin Getz , "Henn, erich, Michael" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > This is a patch using some of Aubrey's work plugging it in what is IMHO > the right way. Feel free to improve on it. I have gotten repeatedly > requests to be able to limit the pagecache. IMHO it's a bad hack. It would be better to identify the problem this "feature" is trying to fix, and then fix the root cause. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org