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DateWed, 30 Jan 2002 13:03:07 +0300
FromHans Reiser <>
SubjectRe: [reiserfs-list] Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: Note describing poordcache utilization under high memory pressure
Andrew Morton wrote:

>
>But what we do *not* want to do is to reclaim memory "fairly" from
>all caches.  The value of a cached page should be measured in terms
>of the number of seeks required to repopulate it.  That's all.
>

This is a good point, and I would like it to be considered by ReiserFS 
developers in regards to internal nodes, and why Sizif's making internal 
nodes have a longer lifetime in his experimental code for squid helped 
performance.

Hans

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