On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, > > > > That would be more appropriate. > > > > (I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to > > "clear out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this > > noed+zone's policy") > > lets do that as a sysctl hack. It would be useful for debugging purposes > anyway. But i'm not sure whether it's the same issue - Martin?
(Sorry..I was on vacation yesterday) Yes, this is the same issue with a different way of making it happen. Setting a zone's policy allows reclaim to happen automatically. I'll send in a patch to add a sysctl to do the manual dumping of pagecache really soon. mh -- Martin Hicks || Silicon Graphics Inc. || [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
