Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:55:00 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: Note describing poor dcache utilization under high memory pressure |
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Andreas Dilger wrote: > > But if it is unused and not recently referenced, there is little benefit > in keeping it around, is there?
In all of this, please remember that all caches are not of equal value-per-byte. A single page contains 32 dentries, and can thus save up to 32 disk seeks. It's potentially a *lot* more valuable than a (single-seek) pagecache page.
Just a thought...
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