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>Why cant we do something like Andrews recent min_free_kbytes patch and
>make the rate of change non linear. Just slow the increase down as we
>get bigger. I agree a 2GB hashtable is pretty ludicrous, but a 4MB one
>on a 512GB machine (which we sell at the moment) could be too :)
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What about making the limit configurable with a boot time parameter? If 
someone uses a 512 GB ppc64 as an nfs server, he might want a 2 GB inode 
hash.

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    Manfred