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

[Christoph Lameter]

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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