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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Adnan Khaleel <akhaleel2001@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Cache question
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:38:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B60AF8.1020401@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.ak7dGOAL/3/Q6eQ0zKX2KgaiWdU@ifi.uio.no>

Adnan Khaleel wrote:
> So would it be possible to me to disable it for just a particular user space process?

It's the core of the whole VM/memory management subsystem. It's not 
something you can just disable.

It would be better if you explained what exactly you were trying to 
accomplish..

> 
> Adnan
> 
> 
>> I'm looking for a way to disable the page cache for an
> 
>> experimental NUMA system running the 2.6.17 kernel. I would prefer to
> 
>> only disable the page cache for my process and still have it be enabled
> 
>> by the rest of the system. Is there an easy way of doing this?
> 
>> Alternatively, I would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well.
> 
> 
> 
> All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel
> 
> modules.
> 
> 
> 
> -Andi

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       reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.ak7dGOAL/3/Q6eQ0zKX2KgaiWdU@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-05 17:38 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-08-05 17:24 Page Cache question Adnan Khaleel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-05 16:32 Page Cache Question Adnan Khaleel
2007-08-05 17:46 ` Tino Keitel
2007-08-05 18:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 10:14 ` Helge Hafting
2007-08-14 14:38   ` Eugene Teo
2006-02-27  7:45 page cache question Xin Zhao
2006-02-27  9:03 ` Nick Piggin

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