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Date:	Mon, 05 May 2008 23:24:58 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?

In article <878wyocy0v.fsf@...il.nowhere.org> you wrote:
> If you don't want your application to be swapped at all you
> should probably investigate mlock(2)/mlockall(2)

Maybe this is similiar to the "well known" mysql dirty buffer problem?

It looks strange to me that sysadmins are forced to swap to ramdisks:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/05/01/mysql-and-the-linux-swap-problem/

Gruss
Bernd
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