linux-kernel - Re: la la la la ... swappiness

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Message-Id: <20061203205649.98df030b.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:56:49 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	<Aucoin@...ston.RR.com>
Cc:	"'Tim Schmielau'" <tim@...sik3.uni-rostock.de>,
	<torvalds@...l.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:56:30 -0600
"Aucoin" <Aucoin@...ston.RR.com> wrote:

> I hope I haven't muddied things up even more but basically what we want to
> do is find a way to limit the number of cached pages for disk I/O on the OS
> filesystem, even if it drastically slows down the untar and verify process
> because the disk I/O we really care about is not on any of the OS
> partitions.

Try mounting that fs with `-o sync'.
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