<quote sender="Helge Hafting"> > Adnan Khaleel wrote: >> 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. >> > Assuming what you really mean is that you don't want to cache > file i/o for that process - try opening files with O_DIRECT.
You will probably find this tool useful: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/pagecache-management/ "... a little tool which permits the management of the pagecache usage of arbitrary applications. Effectively it prevents the targetted application from using any pagecache at all." Eugene - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
