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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Adnan Khaleel <akhaleel2001@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Cache Question
Date: 05 Aug 2007 20:01:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p738x8pn9nb.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <725937.57185.qm@web33705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Adnan Khaleel <akhaleel2001@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 16:32 Adnan Khaleel
2007-08-05 17:46 ` Tino Keitel
2007-08-05 18:01 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-14 10:14 ` Helge Hafting
2007-08-14 14:38   ` Eugene Teo
     [not found] <fa.ak7dGOAL/3/Q6eQ0zKX2KgaiWdU@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-05 17:38 ` Page Cache question Robert Hancock
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-05 17:24 Adnan Khaleel
2006-02-27  7:45 page cache question Xin Zhao
2006-02-27  9:03 ` Nick Piggin

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