On 11/22/06, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes it does that, but there is no guarantee that those 50MB have a single 1M contiguous region amongst them.
right ... the testcase posted is more to quickly illustrate the problem ... the requested size doesnt really matter, what does matter is that we cant seem to reclaim memory from the VFS cache in scenarios where the VFS cache is eating a ton of memory and we need some more another scenario is where an application is constantly reading data from a cd, re-encoding it to mp3, and then writing it to disk. the VFS cache here quickly eats up the available memory. -mike - 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/
