On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Nimrod Zimerman wrote:

> Personally, I don't like the way the pager works. It is too magical. Change
> 'priority', and it might work better. Why? Because. I much preferred the old
> approach, of being able to simply tell the cache (and buffers, though I
> don't see this unless I explicitly try to enlarge it) to *never*, *ever* grow
> over some arbitrary limit. This is far better for smaller machines, at
> least as far as I can currently see.

Setting an high limit for the cache when we are low memory is easy doable.
Comments from other mm guys?

Andrea Arcangeli


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