From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Burton <burton@tailrank.com>,
FD Cami <francois.cami@free.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 15:03:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481F7613.6040809@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080505164446.2ec9a543@cuia.bos.redhat.com>
Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 12:42:31 -0700
> "Kevin Burton" <burton@tailrank.com> wrote:
>>What I want to do is either disable the page cache entirely or just
>>tell the OS to cache at max 10% of the available memory.
> I have no such tunable in my code (yet), because I would like the
> kernel to do the right thing automatically.
Given that the kernel doesn't currently do the right thing, what about
providing a tuneable as a temporary fix for people that are currently
having problems?
Or are you concerned that they will then not be as willing to test the
automatic behaviour?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 7:12 Ability to limit or disable page caching? Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 11:16 ` FD Cami
2008-05-05 18:34 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 19:28 ` FD Cami
2008-05-05 19:42 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-05 20:28 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 20:31 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 20:40 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-06 0:23 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-06 0:30 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 21:24 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-05-05 20:44 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-05 21:00 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 22:08 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-05 22:15 ` Kevin Burton
2008-05-08 2:08 ` split LRU kernel RPM Rik van Riel
2008-05-05 21:03 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-05-05 21:32 ` Ability to limit or disable page caching? Kevin Burton
2008-05-05 22:06 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-06 11:02 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2008-05-05 19:33 ` Kevin Burton
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