From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932331AbXCCUk6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:40:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932304AbXCCUk6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:40:58 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51756 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932331AbXCCUk5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:40:57 -0500 Message-ID: <45E9DD4A.2060806@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:40:42 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: userspace pagecache management tool References: <20070303122935.f1ab0067.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070303122935.f1ab0067.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.