Re: [RPC][PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] limit total vfs page cache

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Jan 22 2007 - 14:17:27 EST


On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > It doesn't reduce the amount of memory available to the system. It
> > just reduce the amount of memory available to the page cache. So that
> > page cache is limited and the reserved memory can be allocated by the
> > application.
>
> But the patch doesn't do that, as I explained.

The patch could do it if he would be checking NR_FILE_PAGES against
a limit instead of the free pages.

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