On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Paul Mather wrote:
> Not being a Python programmer, I don't know exactly how BitTorrent is
> accessing the files (e.g., using mmap), though I do know some kind of
> random access is involved as the filesets are chunked and different
> chunks are served to different peers. I s
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:> (Paul Mather)
:> As you can probably gather, all this manual intervention is a bit of a
:> hassle. So, my question is this: is there a way explicitly to force
:> the kernel to flush its VM cache (to move it to "Free"). Failing
:> that, are there any sysctls to tune to help alleviate the
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> As you can probably gather, all this manual intervention is a bit of a
> hassle. So, my question is this: is there a way explicitly to force
> the kernel to flush its VM cache (to move it to "Free"). Failing
> that, are there any sysctls to tune to help alleviate the problem?
> The only sys
