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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Roy Huang <royhuang9@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aubreylee@gmail.com,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide an interface to limit total page cache.
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:00:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070118140009.GA4814@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afe668f90701150139q26e41720lf06d6ee445a917b0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

> A patch provide a interface to limit total page cache in
> /proc/sys/vm/pagecache_ratio. The default value is 90 
> percent. Any
> feedback is appreciated.

Are you sure percentage is right thing to use? 1% of 200GB machine is
2GB... granularity seems too big here. KB? parts per million?

							Pavel
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-18 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-15  9:39 Roy Huang
2007-01-15 11:01 ` Balbir Singh
2007-01-16  2:34   ` Roy Huang
2007-01-16  9:57     ` Balbir Singh
2007-01-15 11:57 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-01-16  2:40   ` Roy Huang
2007-01-17 14:55     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-01-18  7:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-18 14:00 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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