Re: Page Cache Question

Helge Hafting
2007-08-14T10:21:28Z

Adnan Khaleel wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to disable the page cache for an
> experimental NUMA system running the 2.6.17 kernel. I would prefer to
> only disable the page cache for my process and still have it be enabled
> by the rest of the system. Is there an easy way of doing this?
> Alternatively, I would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well.
>
Assuming what you really mean is that you don't want to cache
file i/o for that process - try opening files with O_DIRECT.

Helge Hafting