From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bigalpha.imi.com (bigalpha.imi.com [199.125.186.10]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA22992 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:28:29 -0500 Message-Id: <9902160001.AA15015@bigalpha.imi.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:30:22 -0500 Subject: MM question From: "Jason Titus" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: I know this must be on a FAQ or some such, but after many hours of newsgroup/web searching - nothing. Is there a way to turn off/down the page caching and buffering? I'm doing database work and am having a really time benchmarking other elements of the system due to Linux's friendly caching.... I have tried editing /proc/sys/vm/pagecache and buffermem, but the changes don't seem to do anything (2.2.0-pre5 - x86). Is there something you have to do to activate the changes? Is there some other file to edit to set the variables at boot time? It sure would be nice to have more control over the caching, like being able to have a /etc/cache.conf file where you could set parameters and mark certain files/filetypes as priority cache items... Anyway, any help would be much appreciated, and sorry for the ignorant question, Jason Titus jason@iatlas.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/