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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: tomlins@cam.org
Cc: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:27:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ovk7eekwsc.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030401133833.6C71DF3D@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> (Ed Tomlinson's message of "Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:38:32 -0500")

Hi Ed,

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> What does tmpfs have to do with ram size?  Its swappable.  This
> _might_ be useful for ramfs but for tmpfs, IMHO, its not a good
> idea.

I agree and I think if you add this option it should adjust to a
percentage of (ram + swap). With this it would be a really nice
improvement.
I even had patches for this but to do it efficently you would need to
add some hooks to swapon and swapoff.

Greetings
		Christoph



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-01 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.eagpkml.m3elbd@ifi.uio.no>
2003-04-01 13:38 ` PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) Ed Tomlinson
2003-04-01 14:17   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:18   ` CaT
2003-04-01 16:27   ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2003-04-01 16:45     ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-02  7:20       ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02  8:12         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-02 14:44         ` CaT
2003-04-02 17:33           ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 20:44             ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-02 21:04               ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03  7:44                 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-07  8:32                 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-07 11:55                   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-07 11:59                     ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-04 11:31               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-04-03  5:35             ` CaT
2003-04-03 10:42               ` CaT
2003-04-02 10:04     ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-03  2:54     ` Robert White
2003-04-03  8:35       ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 20:55         ` Robert White
2003-04-01 14:22 Mikael Starvik
2003-04-01 16:24 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01 18:26   ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-01 19:25     ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 19:57       ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-02  7:13     ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02  7:55       ` Hua Zhong
2003-04-02 10:26         ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03  2:49         ` Robert White
2003-04-03  2:54           ` Hua Zhong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-01  8:10 CaT
2003-04-01 10:59 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-04-01 11:11   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:23     ` CaT
2003-04-01 14:43       ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:54         ` CaT

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