Re: BK performance tip (22x faster)

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sat Jul 08 2000 - 08:18:05 EST


On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

>(taking at least 396 bytes), so 64k inodes would take up nearly 25 MiB
>of RAM! We probably shouldn't do that by default.

Yes, it's not good idea to do that by default becuase it could lead to be
completly wasted memory (since icache can't be shrunk in 2.2.x even if
the memory allocated in icache isn't carrying any useful information).

>However, I note that 2.3.99 and later don't have this control file
>anyway. Perhaps it's dynamic now?

Yes ;-)

Andrea

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