From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:28:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Shansi Ren Subject: Re: How to fix the total size of buffer caches in 2.4.5? In-Reply-To: <20030611162224.GR15692@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. > > > -- 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 > -- 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