Re: [PATCH] Re: Fwd: Re: memory usage - dentry_cacheg

Rik van Riel
2001-04-12T15:49:11Z

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:

> IOW. keeping dcache/icache size low is not a good thing, unless you
> have a memory pressure that requires it. More agressive kupdate _is_
> a good thing, though - possibly kupdate sans flushing buffers, so that
> it would just keep the icache clean and let bdflush do the actual IO.

Very well. Then I'll leave the balancing between eating from the
page cache and eating from the dcache/icache to you. Have fun.

Rik
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