Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:40:45 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache |
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Erik Andersen wrote:
> It would be far more useful if an application could hint to the > pagecache as to which files are and which files as not worth > caching, especially when the application knows a priori that data > from a particular file will or will not ever be reused.
It can give such hints via madvise(2).
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