Re: userspace pagecache management tool

Lee Revell
2007-03-04T01:16:12Z

On 3/3/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> The tool uses an LD_PRELOAD hack to intercept glibc's read(), pread(),
> write(), pwrite(), close() and dup2() functions. pagecache control is done
> via posix_fadvise() and sync_file_range().
>

How could this have any effect on the updatedb problem? updatedb does
not read() anything, it just open()s and stat()s every file on the
disk.

Lee