Re: Atrocious icache/dcache in 2.4.2

2001-04-27 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Hello: > > My box here slows down dramatically after a while, and starts > behaving as if it has very little memory, e.g. programs page > each other out. It turns out that out of 40MB total, about > 35MB is used for dcache and icache, and system basic

Re: Atrocious icache/dcache in 2.4.2

2001-04-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Pete, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > After a little thinking it seems apparent to me that it > may be a good thing to have VM taking pages from dentry and > inode pools directly. This sounds almost what slab does, > so let me speculate about it (it is a bad idea, but it is > inter