Adnan Khaleel wrote:
> So would it be possible to me to disable it for just a particular user space process?
It's the core of the whole VM/memory management subsystem. It's not
something you can just disable.
It would be better if you explained what exactly you were trying to
accomplish..
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> Adnan
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>> I'm looking for a way to disable the page cache for an
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>> experimental NUMA system running the 2.6.17 kernel. I would prefer to
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>> only disable the page cache for my process and still have it be enabled
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>> by the rest of the system. Is there an easy way of doing this?
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>> Alternatively, I would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well.
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> All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel
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> -Andi
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