Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > are you sure this is not some older VM issue? 
> 
> Unless you implement page migration for all caches it's still there.
> The only way to get rid of caches on a node currently is to throw them
> away.  And refetching them from disk is quite costly.

The caches on a node are shrunk dynamically see the zone_reclaim 
functionality introduced in 2.6.16-rc2.
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