Re: la la la la ... swappiness

Andrew Morton
2006-12-04T04:56:59Z

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:56:30 -0600
"Aucoin" <Aucoin@Houston.RR.com> wrote:

> I hope I haven't muddied things up even more but basically what we want to
> do is find a way to limit the number of cached pages for disk I/O on the OS
> filesystem, even if it drastically slows down the untar and verify process
> because the disk I/O we really care about is not on any of the OS
> partitions.

Try mounting that fs with `-o sync'.