Re: Page Cache Question

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Aug 05 2007 - 13:06:55 EST


Adnan Khaleel <akhaleel2001@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm looking for a way to disable the page cache for an
> experimental NUMA system running the 2.6.17 kernel. I would prefer to
> only disable the page cache for my process and still have it be enabled
> by the rest of the system. Is there an easy way of doing this?
> Alternatively, I would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well.

All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel
modules.

-Andi
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