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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. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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