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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Adnan Khaleel <akhaleel2001@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Cache question
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:38:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B60AF8.1020401@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.ak7dGOAL/3/Q6eQ0zKX2KgaiWdU@ifi.uio.no>
Adnan Khaleel wrote:
> So would it be possible to me to disable it for just a particular user space process?
It's the core of the whole VM/memory management subsystem. It's not
something you can just disable.
It would be better if you explained what exactly you were trying to
accomplish..
>
> Adnan
>
>
>> I'm looking for a way to disable the page cache for an
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>> experimental NUMA system running the 2.6.17 kernel. I would prefer to
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>> only disable the page cache for my process and still have it be enabled
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>> by the rest of the system. Is there an easy way of doing this?
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>> Alternatively, I would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well.
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>
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> All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel
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> modules.
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>
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> -Andi
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[not found] <fa.ak7dGOAL/3/Q6eQ0zKX2KgaiWdU@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-05 17:38 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-08-05 17:24 Adnan Khaleel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-05 16:32 Page Cache Question Adnan Khaleel
2007-08-05 17:46 ` Tino Keitel
2007-08-05 18:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 10:14 ` Helge Hafting
2007-08-14 14:38 ` Eugene Teo
2006-02-27 7:45 page cache question Xin Zhao
2006-02-27 9:03 ` Nick Piggin
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