Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261348AbVBWAOn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:14:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261356AbVBWAOn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:14:43 -0500 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:37298 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261348AbVBWAOl (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:14:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:14:12 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Andrew Morton Cc: mingo@elte.hu, raybry@sgi.com, mort@wildopensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hilgeman@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache Message-Id: <20050222161412.4699fef6.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050222104535.0b3a3c65.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050214154431.GS26705@localhost> <20050214193704.00d47c9f.pj@sgi.com> <20050221192721.GB26705@localhost> <20050221134220.2f5911c9.akpm@osdl.org> <421A607B.4050606@sgi.com> <20050221144108.40eba4d9.akpm@osdl.org> <20050222075304.GA778@elte.hu> <20050222032633.5cb38abb.pj@sgi.com> <20050222104535.0b3a3c65.akpm@osdl.org> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 696 Lines: 20 Andrew asked: > So... Cannot the applicaiton remove all its pagecache with posix_fadvise() > prior to exitting? Hang on ... The replies of Ray and Martin answer your immediate question. But we (SGI) are still busy discussing the bigger picture behind the scenes ... -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - 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/