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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2008 12:33:23 -0700
From:	"Kevin Burton" <burton@...lrank.com>
To:	"FD Cami" <francois.cami@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?

.
>> /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure and /proc/sys/vm/swappiness are probably
>> what you are looking for.
>
> I haven't played with vfs_cache_pressure so I'll take a look at this.
>
> Unfortunately, swappiness doesn't work as intended.

OK....... I tried again and no such luck unfortunately.

Set vfs_cache_pressure to 0 and 200 (default is zero) and no luck either way.

A value of 0 us used for swappiness ....

Any other ideas...

The box has enough memory to do this as I can run it without swap....

Kevin

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