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diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs/page_cache.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs/page_cache.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e8a964ed --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs/page_cache.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_documentation]] + +This is not at all specific to ext2fs, so should be integrated elsewhere. + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-04-22 + + <Tekk_> is there any particular reason ext2fs takes so much memory? + <Tekk_> it beats everything on my system hands down at 100 MB + <youpi> ext2fs contains the page cache + <youpi> so it's no wonder it takes memory + <youpi> it's all the mapped files + <Tekk_> any way I can cut down on that? + <Tekk_> my system only has 512 meg :/ + <youpi> gnumach is supposed to automatically cut it down as needed + <youpi> what is the actual symptom that you see? + <Tekk_> youpi: 360 MB of memory usage when I'm doing nothing + <Tekk_> oh, is it just intelligent enough to cut down when I'm using more + memory? + <youpi> Tekk_: yes + <Tekk_> awesome. I was worried :) |