From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Abhishek Rai <abbashake007@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: regarding size limit of local client cache
Date: 11 Mar 2003 23:14:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <shsof4h7dqo.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030311211231.55780.qmail@web11407.mail.yahoo.com>
>>>>> " " == Abhishek Rai <abbashake007@yahoo.com> writes:
> But in any case, I have a large swap partition(500 MB). So why
> doesn't the NFS client make use of the swap space to enlarge
> its available page cache space rather than restricting its page
> cache usage to 8192 -4k pages and thus paying the penalty of a
> very high numbe of on the wire reads.(As i mentioned before,
> there is negligible load on the client apart from the NFS)
There is no guarantee that swap will be faster than NFS. Think GigE or
faster...
In any case, this is an area that in entirely under the control of the
VM. NFS has no say whatsoever in what policy should be applied
w.r.t. caching.
Cheers,
Trond
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-11 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-11 15:27 regarding size limit of local client cache Lever, Charles
2003-03-11 18:30 ` Abhishek Rai
2003-03-11 18:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-03-11 21:12 ` Abhishek Rai
2003-03-11 22:14 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
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2003-03-11 7:33 Abhishek Rai
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