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