From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, raybry@sgi.com, mort@wildopensource.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hilgeman@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:14:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050222161412.4699fef6.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050222104535.0b3a3c65.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew asked:
> So... Cannot the applicaiton remove all its pagecache with posix_fadvise()
> prior to exitting?
Hang on ...
The replies of Ray and Martin answer your immediate question.
But we (SGI) are still busy discussing the bigger picture behind the
scenes ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-14 15:44 [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache Martin Hicks
2005-02-15 3:37 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-16 19:56 ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-21 19:27 ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-21 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 22:12 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-21 22:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 23:52 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-21 22:28 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-21 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 23:01 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-22 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-22 8:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 8:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-22 17:29 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-22 11:26 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-22 18:45 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 18:59 ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-22 19:03 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-23 0:14 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-03-01 21:54 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-21 21:52 ` Nish Aravamudan
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