2007-08-05 17:24:19

by Adnan Khaleel

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Subject: Re: Page Cache question

So would it be possible to me to disable it for just a particular user space process?

Adnan


> 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.



All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel

modules.



-Andi

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