Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] linux-2.6-block: deactivating pagecache for benchmarks | | From | Lee Revell <> | | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:20:40 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 20:13 -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > > Add /proc/sys/vm/drop-pagecache. When written to, this will cause the > > kernel to discard as much pagecache and reclaimable slab objects as it can. > > > > It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first. > > This is deeply, deeply cool. > > > Caveats: > > > > a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time. > > Voluntary preemption point, maybe?
I thin it's a bad idea, that would just encourage people to use this for anything other than debugging. If you care about latency don't discard the page cache.
The GNOME people have been asking for this for a while, in order to improve startup times, they would like a way to simulate a cold start without rebooting.
Lee
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