From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:22:24 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: How to fix the total size of buffer caches in 2.4.5? Message-ID: <20030611162224.GR15692@holomorphy.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Shansi Ren Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:13:34PM -0400, Shansi Ren wrote: > I'm trying to implement the pure LRU algorithm and a new page > replacement algorithm on top of 2.4.5 kernel, and compare their > performance. Can anybody tell me if there is an easy way to seperate the > buffer cache management from the virtual memory management? And how to > preallocate a chunk of memory for buffer cache usage exclusively, say, > 32M exclusively for buffer cache? Thanks. What kernel version did you really mean? 2.4.5 sounds implausible to be what you're really working against. -- wli -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org