On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:20:25 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once we give the kernel the knowledge that the dentry wont be used again > by this app, the kernel can do a lot more intelligent decision and not > baloon the dentry cache. > > ( we _do_ want to baloon the dentry cache otherwise - for things like > "find" - having a fast VFS is important. But known-use-once things > like the daily updatedb job can clearly be annotated properly. ) Mutter. /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure has been there for what, three years? Are any distros raising it during the updatedb run yet? - 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/
