On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:40:42 -0500 Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Well duh. That's a two-order-of-magnitude lesser problem and only affects one of many problematic workloads. > I am sick and tired of the "this is hard, let userspace do it" attitude. Anything you try to do in-kernel will catastrophically screw up some workloads. You don't have a chance of getting this right. You are the kernel. The user just read an entire kernel tree. You face a binary decision: do you cache that tree or do you not? Your time starts now. What is your answer? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
