Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:35:26 -0700 | From | "Paul Menage" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] mm-controller |
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On 6/22/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need > individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are > use cases for pagecache_limit alone without RSS_limit like the case of > database application using direct IO, backup applications and > streaming applications that does not make good use of pagecache. >
If streaming applications would otherwise litter the pagecache with unwanted data, then limiting their total memory footprint (with a single limit) and forcing them to drop old data sooner sounds like a great idea.
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