On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 07:54 +0900, MinChan Kim wrote:
> * Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[....]
> > The second option is to rewrite part of the VM so less
> > metadata is kept for page cache. Specifically, you will
> > have to write code to reclaim buffer heads from page
> > cache pages.
>
> Do You mean current page reclaim mechanism have a problem ?
Only on insane installations.
> As you know, kernel already have reclaimed fs-specific metadata.
> What is a problem?
That people run a 32bit x86 kernel with 64GB RAM on x86_64 hardware
(obviously - 32bit cannot address 64GB RAM anyways) with no good reason.
Bernd
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