Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261991AbTHTOas (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:30:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261994AbTHTOas (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:30:48 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.189]:9977 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261991AbTHTOar (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:30:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3F438615.2000305@gamic.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:30:45 +0200 From: Sergey Spiridonov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how to turn off, or to clear read cache? References: <3F4360F0.209@gamic.com> <200308201311.h7KDBgL20530@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> In-Reply-To: <200308201311.h7KDBgL20530@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 573 Lines: 16 Denis Vlasenko wrote: > umount/mount cycle will do it, as well as intentional OOMing the box > (from non-root account please;) OOMing doesn't help also, since kernel starts to swap and I have performance degradation after. Swithching off the swap is dangerous in conjunction with OOMing. -- Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/