On Monday 05 December 2005 13:21, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:03:48PM -0800, Rob Landley wrote: > > Hey Jeff, you wanted the ability to shrink all the caches and free > > up memory for the hotpluggy thing? > > Close, but what I really want is to free up a specified amount of page > cache. So, if I want to remove 16M from a UML, and get_free_pages can > only give me 10 before returning NULL, then I want to say "drop 6M of > cache, and make it the oldest 6M". > > Conceptually, I want to put memory pressure on the thing until it > drops enough cache to free the memory I want.
Reply to the original on linux-kernel then (or cc: Andrew). I just thought you might be interested. Rob -- Steve Ballmer: Innovation! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
