Re: userspace pagecache management tool

Rik van Riel
2007-03-03T20:40:58Z

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.

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