Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.

Rik van Riel
2002-01-23T12:02:58Z

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:

[free memory is wasted memory]

> > Now, I think the theory itself is OK. The problem is that the stuff in
> > buffer/caches is to sticky. It does not go away when "more important"
> > uses for memory come up. Or at least it does not go away fast enough.
>
> Then we need a larger free target to cope with the slow cache freeing.

Or we make the cache freeing faster. ;)

If you have the time, you might want to try -rmap some
day and see about the cache freeing...

regards,

Rik
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