From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757553AbYEETde (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 15:33:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751056AbYEETd0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 15:33:26 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:27577 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752043AbYEETdZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 15:33:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=NKHoWSNTozzN/fTH/1ctg6jJciUeLqY/9RyNRbYnVEVfBr7vic7Pd8mBePZxhDs2LtwggiVT2HXWZtIw/YtRopDlLlqKWyTM3aH4ovc0CBortzmHLXsCjW7fw1AgFONudJwGuoZRR3Arw5cKuFQ9pdwgTrkW06aW+2QoFZP2jhE= Message-ID: <30c6373b0805051233o25b45762w2eb6f72591fae3dd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 12:33:23 -0700 From: "Kevin Burton" To: "FD Cami" Subject: Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <30c6373b0805051134m634efbbdn45167c1eae29df4a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <30c6373b0805050012o505c0540i116a31bc1ab9ce9f@mail.gmail.com> <20080505131607.5556b1f2@olorin> <30c6373b0805051134m634efbbdn45167c1eae29df4a@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 69434d7a437999b1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org . >> /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure and /proc/sys/vm/swappiness are probably >> what you are looking for. > > I haven't played with vfs_cache_pressure so I'll take a look at this. > > Unfortunately, swappiness doesn't work as intended. OK....... I tried again and no such luck unfortunately. Set vfs_cache_pressure to 0 and 200 (default is zero) and no luck either way. A value of 0 us used for swappiness .... Any other ideas... The box has enough memory to do this as I can run it without swap.... Kevin -- Founder/CEO Tailrank.com Location: San Francisco, CA AIM/YIM: sfburtonator Skype: burtonator Work: http://spinn3r.com and http://tailrank.com Blog: http://feedblog.org Cell: 415-637-8078 Fax: 1-415-358-419 PIN: 0092