From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: tomlins@cam.org
Cc: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:27:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ovk7eekwsc.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030401133833.6C71DF3D@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> (Ed Tomlinson's message of "Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:38:32 -0500")
Hi Ed,
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> What does tmpfs have to do with ram size? Its swappable. This
> _might_ be useful for ramfs but for tmpfs, IMHO, its not a good
> idea.
I agree and I think if you add this option it should adjust to a
percentage of (ram + swap). With this it would be a really nice
improvement.
I even had patches for this but to do it efficently you would need to
add some hooks to swapon and swapoff.
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-01 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-04-01 13:38 ` PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) Ed Tomlinson
2003-04-01 14:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:18 ` CaT
2003-04-01 16:27 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2003-04-01 16:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-02 7:20 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 8:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-02 14:44 ` CaT
2003-04-02 17:33 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 20:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-02 21:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 7:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-07 8:32 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-07 11:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-07 11:59 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-04 11:31 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-04-03 5:35 ` CaT
2003-04-03 10:42 ` CaT
2003-04-02 10:04 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Robert White
2003-04-03 8:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 20:55 ` Robert White
2003-04-01 14:22 Mikael Starvik
2003-04-01 16:24 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01 18:26 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-01 19:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 19:57 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-02 7:13 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 7:55 ` Hua Zhong
2003-04-02 10:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 2:49 ` Robert White
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Hua Zhong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-01 8:10 CaT
2003-04-01 10:59 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-04-01 11:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:23 ` CaT
2003-04-01 14:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:54 ` CaT
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