Re: how to page_cache.max_percent?

From: Ben LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 18:22:16 EST

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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 firenza@gmx.net wrote:

> i don't care about the pagecache, i only care about having those
> 3GB in memory...

mlock()/mlockall().

> is there a way to set a maximum size for the pagecache (afaik,
> page_cache.max_percent is not used)?

> or can i specify to always drain the pagecache before swapping out?

Disable all swap. (ie swapoff -a)

-ben

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