Re: Asynch I/O gets easily overloaded on 2.2.15 and 2.3.99

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:30:31 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

>> But we have to make _some_ decision about it at boot time. The cost
>> of having it too large on a less file-intensive workload may be less
>> than the cost of having it too small if you really are using that many
>> inodes.
>
>At the point its cache footprint becomes significant then it ceases to be
>a further win surely ?

That havn't anything to do with cache, it's only a complexity math
problem.

Andrea

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