Re: cache limit

[Ihar 'Philips' Filipau]

Takao Indoh wrote:
> I made a patch to add new paramter /proc/sys/vm/pgcache-max. It controls
> maximum number of pages used as pagecache.
> An attached file is a mere test patch, so it may contain a bug or ugly
> code. Please let me know if there is an advice, comment, better
> implementation, and so on.

  Do you have something like this for 2.4 kernels?

  [ I expected to find that by default Linux stops polluting memory 
with cache when there is no more pages. But as I see your patch is 
hacking something somewhere in the middle... But I'm not a specialist in 
VM... Gone reading sources. ]

  Thanks for the patch.

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