Re: [Patch] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies (Resend with corrected addresses).

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Confused.  Is this for applications which cannot be taught to use the
> mempolicy API?

In general yes.  Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable
to disproportionately decrease the available memory on a particular node.
Since there's no telling what sort of application (e.g. dd/cp/cat) might be
dropping large files there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate
default behavior for their site's situation.

Brent

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