Subject: Re: UBC status
To: matthew green <mrg@towers-of-dub.eterna.com.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/25/1999 17:12:50
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:26:29PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
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>    - add limits on how much of physmem is used for cached file data?
> 
> 
> there should definately be limits on this...

For unmodified data I'm not sure there should be one (why ?) but for
dirty buffer there should. It's should'nt be possible for someone to eat all
the RAM just by writing a large file.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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