Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 08:54:13 EST


On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Pressure received is not equal to pages yielded. ... The number of
> pages yielded should depend on the interplay of pressure received and
> accesses made.
>
> Does this make more sense now?

Nice recipie for total chaos. You _know_ each filesystem will
behave differently in this respect, it'll be impossible to get
the VM balanced in this way...

Rik

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