From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Kianusch Sayah Karadji <kianusch@sk-tech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tuning/turning off disc caching?
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:02:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D77AA63.D4E5AA9F@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.43.0209051929160.2388-100000@merlin
Kianusch Sayah Karadji wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Is there a way tuning (down) or turning off the disc caching in Linux for
> certain devices?
>
> What I do is writing data via dd or mkisofs directly to a DVD-RAM
> (/dev/srX). The kernel sees the DVD-RAM as a hard-disc. It works fine.
> The Problem is that during the write operation (which takes some time for
> 4,7GB data). The system slows down extremely and all the memory is used
> for caching.
>
There are no very good solutions to this at present. The following should
help:
- Drastically decrease the dirty memory thresholds in /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
- Make the writing application run fsync(fd) every few megabytes.
- Run /bin/sync once per second.
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2002-09-05 17:37 tuning/turning off disc caching? Kianusch Sayah Karadji
2002-09-05 19:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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