From: Martin Knoblauch <"martin.knoblauch "@mscsoftware.com>
To: riel@conectiva.com.br
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disabling file system caching
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:52:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2BF107.AB48694E@mscsoftware.com> (raw)
> Re: Disabling file system caching
>
> From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
> Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 20:05:00 EST
>
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to disable file caching for a given partition or mount?
>
> No, if you do that mmap(), read(), write() etc. would be impossible.
>
> > Or at least to limit it at a certain quantity of memory?
>
> Not yet. I'm thinking of implementing something like this
> for the next version of -rmap (reclaim only from the cache
> if the cache occupies more than a certain fraction of ram).
>
Yes please !!!
Yes please !!!
Yes please !!!
:-)
Having a maximum [and maybe minimum] knob for controlling the cache
would be an extremely useful feature in some situations.
Martin
next reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-20 12:52 Martin Knoblauch [this message]
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2003-01-20 7:47 Disabling file system caching Balbir
2003-01-20 14:21 ` Jan Hudec
2003-01-19 17:05 Jean-Eric Cuendet
2003-01-20 1:05 ` Rik van Riel
2003-01-20 19:47 ` Folkert van Heusden
2003-01-20 21:39 ` Nuno Silva
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