Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Nov 2001 05:23:29 +0100 | From | German Gomez Garcia <> | Subject | Anyway to disable disk buffers/cache in a particular device? |
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Hello,
I would like to know if there is anyway to disable buffering/caching in a particular device, for example, I have a big 40Mb IDE drive that I use for video recording and processing, this kind of process just read data and write it again, buffering is quite useless as the entire file doesn't fit into memory and it's only read once. I usually run the processing in the background as it takes several hours, the problem is that the kernel paged out almost everything in order to cache most of the file.
Regards,
- german
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