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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cache limit
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:11:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030825041117.GN4306@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AC36AB3038685indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:49:45AM +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:
>>> Actually, in the system I constructed(RedHat AdvancedServer2.1, kernel
>>> 2.4.9based), the problem occurred due to pagecache. The system's maximum
>>> response time had to be less than 4 seconds, but owing to the pagecache,
>>> response time get uneven, and maximum time became 10 seconds.

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:47:09 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> Please try the 2.4.18 based redhat kernel, or the 2.4-aa kernel.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:45:58AM +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:
> I need a tuning parameter which can control pagecache
> like /proc/sys/vm/pagecache, which RedHat Linux has.
> The latest 2.4 or 2.5 standard kernel does not have such a parameter.
> 2.4.18 kernel or 2.4-aa kernel has a alternative method?

This is moderately misguided; essentially the only way userspace can
utilize RAM at all is via the pagecache. It's not useful to limit this;
you probably need inode-highmem or some such nonsense.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-25  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-19  4:39 cache limit Anthony R.
2003-08-19  4:57 ` Nuno Silva
2003-08-19  5:33 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-08-19  6:20   ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19  9:05     ` J.A. Magallon
2003-08-19  9:16       ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19  9:28         ` J.A. Magallon
2003-08-19  9:43           ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 13:32     ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-19 20:56       ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 14:28   ` Anthony R.
2003-08-19 18:26     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-19  5:42 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-21  0:49 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-21 23:47   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-25  2:45     ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-25  4:11       ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-08-25 22:58         ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-26  9:46           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27  9:36             ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-27  9:45               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 11:14                 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-27 11:36                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-02 10:52                     ` Takao Indoh
2003-09-02 11:30                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-02 17:21                       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 16:01                 ` Joseph Malicki
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2003-08-21  9:52   ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-25  7:17     ` Takao Indoh
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     [not found]     ` <oyDw.5FP.33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-26 10:15       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-26 17:46         ` Mike Fedyk
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     [not found]         ` <oQh2.4bQ.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-26 19:08           ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-26 19:23             ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 10:21               ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-27 11:07                 ` Nick Piggin
     [not found] <000801c36cb1$454d4950$1001a8c0@etofmv650>
2003-08-27 16:02 ` YoshiyaETO
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2003-08-27 16:03 Joseph Malicki

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