Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933198AbXAYEXN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:23:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752115AbXAYEXN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:23:13 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41326 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752114AbXAYEXM (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:23:12 -0500 Message-ID: <45B82FAB.9040205@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:18:51 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Aubrey Li , Vaidyanathan Srinivasan , Nick Piggin , Robin Getz , "Henn, erich, Michael" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 19 Christoph Lameter wrote: > This is a patch using some of Aubrey's work plugging it in what is IMHO > the right way. Feel free to improve on it. I have gotten repeatedly > requests to be able to limit the pagecache. IMHO it's a bad hack. It would be better to identify the problem this "feature" is trying to fix, and then fix the root cause. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/