Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:32:41 -0700
"Kevin Burton" <burton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'd like to be able to disable the cache altogether.....  It seems
> like an easy tunable to add and might help benefit future testing.

Executables, libraries, shared memory segments, directories and all kinds
of other things live in the page cache.  You cannot disable it without
breaking the most basic functionality.

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