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.

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