Re: How to fix the total size of buffer caches in 2.4.5?

[Shansi Ren <sren@CS.WM.EDU>]

What version do you suggest then? The reason why I choose 2.4.5 is that 
I'm doing a research project. Experiments on earlier versions may not be 
persuasive to audience.


On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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