From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: tomlins@cam.org, CaT <cat@zip.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:04:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030402100428.GA2661@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ovk7eekwsc.fsf@sap.com>
On Tue, 1 April 2003 18:27:47 +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
> I agree and I think if you add this option it should adjust to a
> percentage of (ram + swap). With this it would be a really nice
> improvement.
> I even had patches for this but to do it efficently you would need to
> add some hooks to swapon and swapoff.
Which means we have two orthogonal problems to deal with. Adding the
percent option and "fixing" it to take swap into account.
Not completely orthogonal, though, since the "fix" actually changes
semantics and might break some peoples setups. Take 3x50% of RAM and
twice the RAM as swap, for example.
Jörn
--
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Columbus. But remember, they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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2003-04-01 13:38 ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-04-01 14:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:18 ` CaT
2003-04-01 16:27 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01 16:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-02 7:20 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 8:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-02 14:44 ` CaT
2003-04-02 17:33 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 20:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-02 21:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 7:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-07 8:32 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-07 11:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-07 11:59 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-04 11:31 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-04-03 5:35 ` CaT
2003-04-03 10:42 ` CaT
2003-04-02 10:04 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Robert White
2003-04-03 8:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 20:55 ` Robert White
2003-04-01 14:22 Mikael Starvik
2003-04-01 16:24 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01 18:26 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-01 19:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 19:57 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-02 7:13 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 7:55 ` Hua Zhong
2003-04-02 10:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 2:49 ` Robert White
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Hua Zhong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-01 8:10 CaT
2003-04-01 10:59 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-04-01 11:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:23 ` CaT
2003-04-01 14:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:54 ` CaT
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