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From: FD Cami <francois.cami@...>
To: Kevin Burton <burton@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?
Date: Monday, May 5, 2008 - 7:16 am

Hi,

On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:12:56 -0700
"Kevin Burton" <burton@tailrank.com> wrote:


You might want to look at /proc/sys/vm/ for tunables.
/proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure and /proc/sys/vm/swappiness are probably
what you are looking for.
See this article for an explanation of swappiness :
http://www.leap-cf.org/oldarchive/2004-May/038622.html


AFAIK RHEL 4.x runs 2.6.9.

Cheers

FDC
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Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 3:12 am)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, FD Cami, (Mon May 5, 7:16 am)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 2:34 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, FD Cami, (Mon May 5, 3:28 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Tomasz Kłoczko, (Tue May 6, 7:02 am)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 3:42 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Rik van Riel, (Mon May 5, 4:44 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Chris Friesen, (Mon May 5, 5:03 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 5:32 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Rik van Riel, (Mon May 5, 6:06 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 5:00 pm)
split LRU kernel RPM, Rik van Riel, (Wed May 7, 10:08 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Rik van Riel, (Mon May 5, 6:08 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 6:15 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Andi Kleen, (Mon May 5, 4:10 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Bernd Eckenfels, (Mon May 5, 5:24 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 4:28 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 4:31 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 4:40 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Andi Kleen, (Mon May 5, 8:23 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 8:30 pm)
Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?, Kevin Burton, (Mon May 5, 3:33 pm)