Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:52:24 +0100 | From | Martin Knoblauch <"martin.knoblauch "@mscsoftware.com> | Subject | Re: Disabling file system caching |
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> Re: Disabling file system caching > > From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br) > Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 20:05:00 EST > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > > > Is it possible to disable file caching for a given partition or mount? > > No, if you do that mmap(), read(), write() etc. would be impossible. > > > Or at least to limit it at a certain quantity of memory? > > Not yet. I'm thinking of implementing something like this > for the next version of -rmap (reclaim only from the cache > if the cache occupies more than a certain fraction of ram). >
Yes please !!! Yes please !!! Yes please !!!
:-)
Having a maximum [and maybe minimum] knob for controlling the cache would be an extremely useful feature in some situations.
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