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From: Dave Rutherford <dave@evilpettingzoo.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "U.Mutlu" <for-gmane@mutluit.com>
Subject: Re: fsck memory leak
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:08:14 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1512041806510.17213@bb> (raw)

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 5:26 PM, U.Mutlu <for-gmane@mutluit.com> wrote:
> I'm not a friend of such default integrated system caching, it reminds
> me of Windows idiocy. This is nothing but a diskcache in ram,

... made up strictly of memory that nothing else wants.
This is different than a ramdisk, which itself is something that wants 
RAM.

> but then
> the admin should have the the freedom to set the size of the cache via
> a config file in etc, for example /etc/default/cache or in 
/etc/default/tmpfs.

Why? It's memory that *nothing else wants*. It's given up instantly
the moment something else needs to use it. So there's no downside,
unlike with that other "operating system" you mention.

> :-)

:-(

-- 
Prius I, Pontiff, Schenectadian Catholic Church

             reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04 23:08 Dave Rutherford [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-04  7:15 fsck memory leak U.Mutlu
2015-12-04  7:49 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 10:21   ` Karel Zak
2015-12-04 18:00     ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 15:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 17:53   ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 19:09     ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 19:58     ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 20:31       ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 21:40         ` Ruediger Meier
2015-12-04 22:26           ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 22:03         ` Mike Frysinger
2015-12-04 22:17         ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 22:01       ` Mike Frysinger

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