Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:58:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> I can't argue that a smaller pagecache will be subject to a
> higher turnaround given the same workload, but I don't know why
> that would be a good thing.

Neither do I. Wonder why we need this but I keep getting 
these requests. Could we either find a reason for limiting the pagecache 
or get this out of our system for good?
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