Many (maybe even most) applications we run, read or write their data in streaming mode, and there would seem to be no advantage in passing this data through the UBC first, since the data is not re-read within a short time. In fact it slows the response time of the system because the UBC consumes large amounts of system memory if these files are large, and then there is a (sometimes substantial) delay while enough UBC is flushed to disk to make way for a new application to run. 1. Is there a way to restrict the amount of memory consumed by the UBC? 2. Is there any way of mounting a filesystem such that its data doesnt pass through the UBC at all? Cheers, Terry.
