From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:58:42 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache In-Reply-To: <45B7561C.9000102@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <1169625333.4493.16.camel@taijtu> <45B7561C.9000102@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Aubrey Li , Vaidyanathan Srinivasan , Robin Getz , "Henn, erich, Michael" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > I can't argue that a smaller pagecache will be subject to a > higher turnaround given the same workload, but I don't know why > that would be a good thing. Neither do I. Wonder why we need this but I keep getting these requests. Could we either find a reason for limiting the pagecache or get this out of our system for good? -- 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