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DateSat, 03 Mar 2007 15:40:42 -0500
FromRik van Riel <>
SubjectRe: userspace pagecache management tool
Andrew Morton wrote:

> It is to address the "waah, backups fill my memory with pagecache" and the
> "waah, updatedb swapped everything out" and the "waah, copying a DVD
> gobbled all my memory" problems.

By removing pressure from the page cache, you'll only allow updatedb
to grow the inode and dentry caches larger than before.

I am sick and tired of the "this is hard, let userspace do it" attitude.

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