Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937162AbWLDSjr (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:39:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937241AbWLDSjr (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:39:47 -0500 Received: from Mail.MNSU.EDU ([134.29.1.12]:51559 "EHLO mail.mnsu.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937162AbWLDSjq (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:39:46 -0500 Message-ID: <45746B1B.5060809@mnsu.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:38:19 -0600 From: Jeffrey Hundstad User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061128) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aucoin@houston.rr.com CC: Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton , "Horst H. von Brand" , "'Kyle Moffett'" , "'Tim Schmielau'" , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dcn@sgi.com Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness References: <200612041439.kB4EdGFn025092@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com> <200612041707.kB4H7Mnh020665@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <20061204100656.793d8d6a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 21 Hello, Please forgive me if this is naive. It seems that you could recompile your tar and patch commands to use the POSIX_FADVISE(2) feature with the POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE flags. It seems these would cause the tar and patch commands to not clutter the page cache at all. It'd be nice to be able to make a wrapper out of this kind of like the fakeroot(1) command like such as: nocachesuck tar xvfz kernel.tar.gz ya know what I mean? -- Jeffrey Hundstad - 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/