From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760159AbXHERGy (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:06:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755557AbXHERGr (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:06:47 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48041 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753552AbXHERGq (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:06:46 -0400 To: Adnan Khaleel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Page Cache Question References: <725937.57185.qm@web33705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: 05 Aug 2007 20:01:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <725937.57185.qm@web33705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adnan Khaleel 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