> From: "Ted Unangst" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:25:09 -0500 > > Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > > I may be naive, but shouldn't dirhash memory be accounted with/like > > buffer cache memory (freed when other sybsystems need it)? > > Probably. The limit exists in part because there is no backpressure.
A more generic backpressure mechanism would be welcome I guess. But the current way it works for the page daemon and buffer cache is quite "fragile".
