Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:07:07 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache |
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote:
>> There are a few databases out there that mmap the whole >> thing. Sleepycat for one... > > That is why my suggestion would be not to touch mmapped pagecache > pages in the current pagecache limit code. The limit should concern > only unmapped pagecache pages.
So you want to limit how much data the kernel caches for mysql or postgresql, but not limit how much of the rpm database is cached ?!
IMHO your proposal does the exact opposite of what would be right for my systems :)
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