And CP already has a good mechanism for caching file I/O especially if you can get to sharing Read-Only filesystems (Minidisks) between lots of servers. Let CP cache that file I/O and let each Linux swap his own programs.
/Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Adam Thornton > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 14:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: VDSK Swap - allocation size? > > Yes, if Linux didn't happy gobble up any available memory and > use it as > file cache. But it does, and there's no easy way to defeat this > behavior. So you basically end up having CP carefully > managing a whole > bunch of pages of cached file contents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
