Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:50:45 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1-ck4 |
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Con Kolivas wrote: >> Added since 2.6.8.1-ck3: >> +mapped_watermark.diff
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:22:32PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > Sounds like a bad idea for file servers ;) > Wouldn't it be better to lazily move these cached pages to > a "cached" list like the BSDs have, and reclaim it immediately > when the memory is needed for something else ? > It should be easy enough to keep the cached data around and > still have the cache pages easily reclaimable.
This will be unmapped and clean; but that's not certain to be enough. We must ask at what cost comes aggressive caching.
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