Re: 2.1.103 cache size still too big

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 21:26:50 +0200 (MET DST)


On Fri, 29 May 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> The only way to read with Pine linux-kernel at the end of the month
> without wait for ages on my 32Mbye machine on 2.1.103 is setting:

[snip]

> I hope somebody will fix cache memory management before 2.2. I don' t
> bother about cache speed, I bother about use the system.

We should have a maximum percentage of memory that can be
used for the caching of _one_ file, possibly tunable by
counting the number of pagefaults for this file vs. the
total number of pagefaults in the system.

Rik.
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