Thanks Marc! This is a scary issue. I know that the files written by my application will not be read frequently (Only a very small percentage of them will be read). Can I programmatically OR using some system configuration, disable read cache on per file/process/systemwide basis? -Tulsi Ram. > On Wednesday 05 May 2004 03:04, Tulsi Ram Mayala wrote: > > Hi Tulsi, > >> I need some help to disable disk caching on Red Hat linux 7.2 (kernel >> 2.4). >> I run a server application on this system with 2 Gigs of RAM. The server >> application does a lot of disk IO and with time, the linux system >> consumes >> all of available memory in cache and buffers thus leaving no space for >> the >> processes to grow. The system starts swapping and slows down my server >> application. >> I need some way to limit/disable the disk caching. My application does >> both disk read and write intensive operations. >> Any pointers will be appreciated. >> Thanx in advance. > > I don't know what Kernel RH 7.2 is using, but maybe it's all related to > this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89226 > > ciao, Marc > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
