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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
