From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Yves Crespin <crespin.quartz@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Disable cache disk
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:34:02 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424AC6EA.9040707@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <424AA2F0.3090100@wanadoo.fr>
Yves Crespin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I write a lot of files on a USB disk for video monitoring archiving.
> The write program is faster than the USB.
> Cache disk take all RAM and kernel start swapping and everything become
> very slow.
> 1/ is-it possible to *really* be synchronize. I prefer to have a blocked
> write() than use cache and get swap!
> 2/ is-it possible to disable cache disk ?
Try open() with O_DIRECT flag for a start.
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-30 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-30 13:00 Disable cache disk Yves Crespin
2005-03-30 15:34 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2005-03-30 15:38 ` Christian Bornträger
2005-03-31 7:23 ` Yves Crespin
2005-03-31 8:25 ` Christian Borntraeger
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