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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: padraig@antefacto.com (Padraig Brady), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk
Date: 05 Dec 2001 08:49:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37ks2qf72.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16BLxI-0003Ic-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16BLxI-0003Ic-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Hi Alan,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>> wrt the ramfs leak (the referenced patch below worked for me),
>> is the ramfs usage limits patch + this fix going into
>> the official 2.4 soon as it was in the ac series for ages?
> 
> The -ac ramfs changes need the mm operations changes. Someone has to
> go merge that with Andrea-vm then you can get ramfs fixed and
> accounting sorted out in shmfs

To be pendantic here: Accounting is right in tmpfs (^=shmfs).

What's missing is the global statistic of how many in memory pages in
the page cache are actually tmpfs pages.

Greetings
		Christoph



  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-04 19:01 question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk Roy S.C. Ho
2001-12-04 19:47 ` Padraig Brady
2001-12-04 20:14   ` Alan Cox
2001-12-05  7:49     ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-12-05  7:56     ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-05  8:23       ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05  8:42         ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-05 13:51           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-06 16:37         ` David Gibson
2001-12-06 16:55           ` Alan Cox
2001-12-08  9:53           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-14  5:35             ` David Gibson
2001-12-16 15:34               ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-17  3:49                 ` David Gibson
2001-12-17  7:55                   ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05  9:37   ` Roy S.C. Ho

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