Re: Page Cache question

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Adnan Khaleel wrote:
> So would it be possible to me to disable it for just a particular user space process?

It's the core of the whole VM/memory management subsystem. It's not 
something you can just disable.

It would be better if you explained what exactly you were trying to 
accomplish..

> Adnan
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>
> > I'm looking for a way to disable the page cache for an
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> > experimental NUMA system running the 2.6.17 kernel. I would prefer to
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> > only disable the page cache for my process and still have it be enabled
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> > by the rest of the system. Is there an easy way of doing this?
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> > Alternatively, I would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well.
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>
>
> All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel
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> modules.
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>
> -Andi

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