From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk (renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk [129.215.13.3]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA06100 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:16:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:43:11 +0100 Message-Id: <199807231443.PAA08910@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 2.1.110 freepages.min change In-Reply-To: <19980722222736.49195@boole.suse.de> References: <19980722222736.49195@boole.suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Dr. Werner Fink" Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:27:36 +0200, "Dr. Werner Fink" said: > The change in fs/dcache.c does not look very well because > as higher the number given to prune_dache in shrink_dcache_memory > as more the dcache is pruned ... `0' isn't that good is it? Werner, have you given it a shot? With this fix in place, the dcache/inode fragmentation issues in 2.1 are very dramatically improved on low memory. I'm very pleased indeed with this patch: even if it's only prune_dcache(0), it is still being called much more often when we get short of memory. --Stephen -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org