Re: Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:18:13 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Hmmm, considering this, it may be wise to limit the amount of
> inodes in the inode cache to, say, 10% of RAM ... because we
> can cache MORE inodes if we store them in the buffer cache
> instead!

Rik, I'd rather check the effect of prune_icache() patch before
deciding what to do. It doesn't make much sense to limit icache
size when we leave unused inodes for a long time.

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