From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Kevin Burton" <burton@tailrank.com>
Cc: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
"FD Cami" <francois.cami@free.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 18:06:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080505180629.3b60c5fb@cuia.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30c6373b0805051432k2c5c3311vffb10fdf2a0ac1cd@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:32:41 -0700
"Kevin Burton" <burton@tailrank.com> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to disable the cache altogether..... It seems
> like an easy tunable to add and might help benefit future testing.
Executables, libraries, shared memory segments, directories and all kinds
of other things live in the page cache. You cannot disable it without
breaking the most basic functionality.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 7:12 Ability to limit or disable page caching? Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 11:16 ` FD Cami
2008-05-05 18:34 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 19:28 ` FD Cami
2008-05-05 19:42 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-05 20:28 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 20:31 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 20:40 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-06 0:23 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-06 0:30 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 21:24 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-05-05 20:44 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-05 21:00 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 22:08 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-05 22:15 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-08 2:08 ` split LRU kernel RPM Rik van Riel
2008-05-05 21:03 ` Ability to limit or disable page caching? Chris Friesen
2008-05-05 21:32 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 22:06 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-05-06 11:02 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2008-05-05 19:33 ` Kevin Burton
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