Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache

[Rik van Riel]

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:

> In my opinion, once a
> file page is mapped by the process, then it should be treated at par
> with anon pages.  Application programs generally do not mmap a file
> page if the reuse for the content is very low.

Why not have the VM measure this, instead of making wild
assumptions about every possible workload out there?

There are a few databases out there that mmap the whole
thing.  Sleepycat for one...

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