Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: Note describing poordcache utilization under high memory pressure

Hans Reiser (reiser@namesys.com)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:03:07 +0300


Andrew Morton wrote:

>
>But what we do *not* want to do is to reclaim memory "fairly" from
>all caches. The value of a cached page should be measured in terms
>of the number of seeks required to repopulate it. That's all.
>

This is a good point, and I would like it to be considered by ReiserFS
developers in regards to internal nodes, and why Sizif's making internal
nodes have a longer lifetime in his experimental code for squid helped
performance.

Hans

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