Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:43:11 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.110 freepages.min change |
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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:27:36 +0200, "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> said:
> The change in fs/dcache.c does not look very well because > as higher the number given to prune_dache in shrink_dcache_memory > as more the dcache is pruned ... `0' isn't that good is it?
Werner, have you given it a shot? With this fix in place, the dcache/inode fragmentation issues in 2.1 are very dramatically improved on low memory. I'm very pleased indeed with this patch: even if it's only prune_dcache(0), it is still being called much more often when we get short of memory.
--Stephen
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