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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:00:44 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@parallab.uib.no>
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Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:43:24PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Can you try echo 10000 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure, and see how that 
>>goes?
>>
>
>
>Yes! Now it works. So is vfs_cache_pressure=10000 a sensible value to use? 
>
>

Well if it keeps you going then yes. For now. I'll get back to you with
something to try though.

Thanks.