Re: Linux disk caching

["Tulsi Ram Mayala" <tulsi_rammayala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc,
I used this option while opening, for all the files that I read and write.
Still the cache grows upto 600Megs when I run my application.
I could not get where do I need to use memalign. Can you please be more
specific on where should I use it?

thanks,
Tulsi Ram.

> On Thursday 06 May 2004 19:24, Tulsi Ram Mayala wrote:
>
> Hi Tulsi,
>
>> I tried using O_DIRECT, but made no difference. Searching gave me this
>> link: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2703
>> Does it really work?
>
> it does work :) ... If it did not I am 100% sure, thousands of people had
> screamed very loud ;)
>
> Did you opened it page aligned?
>
> man 3 memalign
>
> ciao, Marc
>


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