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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/