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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: userspace pagecache management tool
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:40:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E9DD4A.2060806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070303122935.f1ab0067.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:

> It is to address the "waah, backups fill my memory with pagecache" and the
> "waah, updatedb swapped everything out" and the "waah, copying a DVD
> gobbled all my memory" problems.

By removing pressure from the page cache, you'll only allow updatedb
to grow the inode and dentry caches larger than before.

I am sick and tired of the "this is hard, let userspace do it" attitude.

-- 
Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country
the best in the world, and those who believe it already is.  Each group
calls the other unpatriotic.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-03 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-03 20:29 userspace pagecache management tool Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 20:40 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-03-03 21:12   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 21:30     ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-03 21:41       ` bert hubert
2007-03-03 22:14         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 22:19           ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-03 22:26             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 22:28               ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-03 22:38                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 22:56               ` Erik Andersen
2007-03-03 23:01               ` bert hubert
2007-03-03 23:45                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-06 12:10                   ` Pádraig Brady
2007-03-06 21:40                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-06 21:44                       ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-07 11:39                       ` Pádraig Brady
2007-03-07 18:50                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-08  7:59                   ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-03-08  8:12                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 22:07       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 22:25         ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-03 22:37           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 22:52           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  0:01             ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-04  1:02               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  1:23                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-04  1:49                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  1:56                     ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-04 12:07                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04 14:35                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-03-04 16:01                         ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-03 22:58 ` Ray Lee
2007-03-03 23:34   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  1:02     ` Ray Lee
2007-03-04  1:21       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  0:14 ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-03-04  1:10   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  1:39   ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-04  1:16 ` Lee Revell
2007-03-04  1:39   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  2:35     ` Lee Revell
2007-03-04  4:35       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-05 11:02 ` Pádraig Brady
2007-03-05 11:12   ` Andrew Morton

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