From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Cc: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM tuning patch, take 2
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:30:01 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106090028570.10415-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01060721593800.06690@oscar>
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> Think you are right Jonathan. This adding this back is _not_ going to
> make a difference. With the changes Rik made for 2.4.5, these caches
> are agressivily shrunk when there is free shortage...
Suppose you have 80MB of free memory, 120MB in inode/dentry
cache and no swap. A 100MB allocation will _fail_ with this
code removed from vm_enough_memory(), even though it's easy
to free the inode and dentry caches...
Rik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-09 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <l0313031fb74590aea499@[192.168.239.105]>
[not found] ` <3B1FED7C.4E483BCD@mandrakesoft.com>
2001-06-07 22:59 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-07 23:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-08 1:35 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-08 0:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-08 2:08 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-08 0:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-08 2:35 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-08 1:59 ` Ed Tomlinson
2001-06-09 3:30 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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