Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967345AbWLDVpN (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:45:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967367AbWLDVpM (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:45:12 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:56703 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967345AbWLDVpK (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:45:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:43:26 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Cc: "'Jeffrey Hundstad'" , "'Christoph Lameter'" , "'Horst H. von Brand'" , "'Kyle Moffett'" , "'Tim Schmielau'" , , , Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness Message-Id: <20061204134326.3175c1df.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200612042125.kB4LPmld014172@ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com> References: <45746B1B.5060809@mnsu.edu> <200612042125.kB4LPmld014172@ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; 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: 823 Lines: 19 On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:25:47 -0600 "Aucoin" wrote: > > From: Jeffrey Hundstad [mailto:jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu] > > POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE flags. It seems these would cause the tar and patch > > WI may be na__ve as well, but that sounds interesting. Unless someone knows > of an obvious reason this won't work we can make a one-off tar command and > give it a whirl. > Well if altering tar is an option then sure, a sync_file_range(SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) followed by fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) will free the memory up again. - 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/