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SubjectRe: la la la la ... swappiness
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:25:47 -0600
"Aucoin" <Aucoin@Houston.RR.com> wrote:

> > From: Jeffrey Hundstad [mailto:jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu]
> > POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE flags. It seems these would cause the tar and patch
>
> WI may be na__ve as well, but that sounds interesting. Unless someone knows
> of an obvious reason this won't work we can make a one-off tar command and
> give it a whirl.
>

Well if altering tar is an option then sure, a
sync_file_range(SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) followed
by fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) will free the memory up again.
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