On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack,
> >
> > That would be more appropriate.
> >
> > (I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to
> > "clear out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this
> > noed+zone's policy")
>
> lets do that as a sysctl hack. It would be useful for debugging purposes
> anyway. But i'm not sure whether it's the same issue - Martin?
(Sorry..I was on vacation yesterday)
Yes, this is the same issue with a different way of making it happen.
Setting a zone's policy allows reclaim to happen automatically.
I'll send in a patch to add a sysctl to do the manual dumping of
pagecache really soon.
mh
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