Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:12:42 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vm balance Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104121511050.18260-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <200104121757.f3CHvJd20639@earth.backplane.com>
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > Again, keep in mind that the namei cache is strictly throw-away, This seems to be the main difference between Linux and FreeBSD. In Linux, open files directly refer to an entry in the dentry (and inode) cache, so we really need to have dynamically growing and shrinking caches in order to accomodate programs that have huge amounts of files open (but we want to free the memory again later, because the system load changes). regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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