Re: Disabling file system caching

[Martin Knoblauch]

> Re: Disabling file system caching
> 
> From: Rik van Riel ([e-mail])
> 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.

Martin