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From: Adnan Khaleel <akhaleel2001@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Cache question
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:24:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <970535.60395.qm@web33710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)

So would it be possible to me to disable it for just a particular user space process?

Adnan


> I'm looking for a way to disable the page cache for an

> experimental NUMA system running the 2.6.17 kernel. I would prefer to

> only disable the page cache for my process and still have it be enabled

> by the rest of the system. Is there an easy way of doing this?

> Alternatively, I would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well.



All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel

modules.



-Andi

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 17:24 Adnan Khaleel [this message]
     [not found] <fa.ak7dGOAL/3/Q6eQ0zKX2KgaiWdU@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-05 17:38 ` Robert Hancock
  -- 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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