From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: padraig@antefacto.com (Padraig Brady), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk
Date: 05 Dec 2001 08:49:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37ks2qf72.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16BLxI-0003Ic-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16BLxI-0003Ic-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Hi Alan,
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>> wrt the ramfs leak (the referenced patch below worked for me),
>> is the ramfs usage limits patch + this fix going into
>> the official 2.4 soon as it was in the ac series for ages?
>
> The -ac ramfs changes need the mm operations changes. Someone has to
> go merge that with Andrea-vm then you can get ramfs fixed and
> accounting sorted out in shmfs
To be pendantic here: Accounting is right in tmpfs (^=shmfs).
What's missing is the global statistic of how many in memory pages in
the page cache are actually tmpfs pages.
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-05 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-04 19:01 question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk Roy S.C. Ho
2001-12-04 19:47 ` Padraig Brady
2001-12-04 20:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-05 7:49 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-12-05 7:56 ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-05 8:23 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05 8:42 ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-05 13:51 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-06 16:37 ` David Gibson
2001-12-06 16:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-08 9:53 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-14 5:35 ` David Gibson
2001-12-16 15:34 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-17 3:49 ` David Gibson
2001-12-17 7:55 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05 9:37 ` Roy S.C. Ho
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