On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > With your patch, MMAP of a file that will cross the pagecache limit hangs the > system. As I mentioned in my previous mail, without subtracting the > NR_FILE_MAPPED, the reclaim will infinitely try and fail.
Well mapped pages are still pagecache pages. > I have tested your patch with the attached fix on my PPC64 box. Interesting. What is your reason for wanting to limit the size of the pagecache? - 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/