Re: smart cache. ist is possible?

[Alexey Fisher]

Hi,

Sitsofe Wheeler schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 04:28:55PM +0100, Alexey Fisher wrote:
> > I found for my self how great is cache in linux. If read one file from
> > disk, so i don't need to do it second time, chace will do the job. It
> > speed up thing greatly. But i found it not working with realy big files.
> > Like i have 4GB RAM, so if i read a file like 4.6GB, cache won't work.
>
> Watch out - if you are doing cache tests you really want to be using
> drop_caches ( http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches ) before your "cold" runs
> so you can be sure that the cache really was empty before you started...

It is not what i mean. I know how to clear cache but exactly i do not 
won't it. I will use cache and it's working perfectly with small files. 
But there is a problem with big files. For example i have 4GB RAM, if i 
read 4,6GB file the cache is useless. The question is; are there any way 
to workaround it, except more RAM?
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