Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:43:26 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: la la la la ... swappiness |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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