linux-kernel - Re: Page Cache question

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Message-ID: <970535.60395.qm@web33710.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date:	Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:24:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Adnan Khaleel <akhaleel2001@...oo.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Cache question

So would it be possible to me to disable it for just a particular user space process?

Adnan

> I'm looking for a way to disable the page cache for an

> experimental NUMA system running the 2.6.17 kernel. I would prefer to

> only disable the page cache for my process and still have it be enabled

> by the rest of the system. Is there an easy way of doing this?

> Alternatively, I would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well.

All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel

modules.

-Andi

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